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When a high school student s body is found and her boyfriend goes missing, tough-as-nails former sheriff Cork O Connor is forced into the center of an eerie mystery with a shocking twist in this vivid and realistic (Booklist), Anthony Award-winning novel from New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger. When the body of a beautiful high school student is discovered on a hillside four months after her disappearance on New Year s Eve, all evidence points to her boyfriend, local bad boy Solemn Winter Moon. Despite Solemn s self-incriminating decision to go into hiding, Cork O Connor isn t about to hang the crime on a kid he s convinced is innocent. In an uphill battle to clear Solemn s name, Cork encounters no shortage of adversity. Some–like bigotry and bureaucracy–he knows all too well. What Cork isn t prepared for is the emergence of a long-held resentment from his own childhood. And when Solemn reappears, claiming to have seen a vision of Jesus Christ in Blood Hollow, the mystery becomes thornier than Cork could ever have anticipated. And that s when the miracles start happening.