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How far will some families go to protect their legacy?
Diana Wolf likes to think she has it all: a rock god husband, an empty nest, a wine cellar, and a dream home in the woods. Life is good. It has to be. But when she hires a cartographer, Kerry Perkins, to survey and map her estate in rural Tennessee, she pulls back a frayed corner of the lie that is her fairytale life. On his first night at Wolf Hollow, Kerry stumbles across a young girl's skeleton buried in the woods. But what really scares Diana is a familiar symbol carved into the girl’s skull: two wolves.
A week later, the cops are digging in her backyard. Diana begins to question how good her life really is. How good of a man is her husband and how good a father? She’s not the only one with questions. Kerry Perkins can’t shake what he saw in the woods that night. He suspects that Diana recognized that symbol, that she lied to the police; that someone is watching him, and that whoever it is, they desperately want him to keep his mouth shut.
His search for answers leads him to Pink, a deeply disturbed man obsessed with the Wolfs’ celebrity. Pink knows the family better than they know themselves—and he knows that the more he and Kerry dig, the more bones they will find.
Told through the eyes of multiple narrators, none reliable, this is a story about parents, the lies they tell their children, and the lies they tell themselves.
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- ISBN: 9781639100064
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- ISBN: 9781639100064
- File size: 1294 KB
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- English
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June 27, 2022
At the start of Davis’s rambling debut, Diana Wolf, who lives with her rock star husband at their Leiper’s Fork, Tenn., estate, impulsively hires cartographer Kerry Perkins to survey the property. During Kerry’s first night on the job, he trips over a skull and notices a carving of two wolves etched into its forehead. Diana sees the skull and recognizes the wolves as a symbol with which her two 20ish artist sons used to sign their paintings, but to protect them, she doesn’t share this revelation. Kerry senses that Diana is lying about the carving, and his doubts lead him to Panaggiotis “Pink” Gopsikopolis, a cyber genius who’s been obsessively stalking the Wolf family for 12 years. As Kerry and Pink dig deeper, they discover horrifying secrets of abuse and murder. Frequent jumps in time and shifts of perspectives make the plot difficult to follow. Readers have no hero to root for, and the action builds to a confusing, unsatisfying conclusion. Fans of domestic horror thrillers can safely take a pass. Agent: Sam Farkas, Jill Grinberg Literary Management.
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