By: Lo Patrick
ISBN: 9781728290478
Publisher:Sourcebooks Landmark
Publication Date: 07/08/2025
Format: Paperback
My Rating: TBR (ARC)
They say you can never go home again. And sometimes, you shouldn't.
Following a semi-successful career as a teen model in New York City, Danielle Greer has moved back to the mountains of North Georgia and is living in her childhood home with her husband and four daughters. One stifling, lazy afternoon, the girls are exploring the ravine behind the house when they come across a body.
Danielle knows the body doesn't belong to Benji Law, a younger local misfit who Danielle had an illicit relationship with as a teenager. No, his body was found right away, after he was killed in a motorcycle accident on the road in front of her family's house. Danielle has a good idea who the body might be, but she doesn't know how it got there.
When local police officer Cady Benson is called in to investigate, Danielle's world is turned upside down, and she's thrust back into those dark, confusing days leading up to Benji's death, battling the things she remembers with the things she can't forget.
From the acclaimed author of The Floating Girls and The Night the River Wept comes a gritty, coming-of-age, slow-burn Southern mystery with devastating characters and a twist that will leave you aching, exposing the all-consuming, obsessive power of first love and what it can do to a person.
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Praise
"Past and present intermix in this riveting story that proves, no matter how much you might want it, you can’t ever really leave your past behind. Lo Patrick does a masterful job setting the stage for the gripping suspense that had me turning the pages long into the night. "
― Suzanne Redfearn, #1 Amazon bestselling author of In an Instant
"Fast Boys and Pretty Girls is a haunting and atmospheric mystery with turns as sharp as a Georgia back road."
― Jennifer Moorhead, Amazon Bestselling Author of Broken Bayou
About the Author
LO PATRICK is a former lawyer and current novelist living in the suburbs of Atlanta. Her debut, The Floating Girls, earned a starred review from Publisher's Weekly, was a finalist for the Townsend Prize for Fiction, and was a Reader's Digest Editor's Pick. WEBSITE
