The Stone Forest - Softcover

Harper, Karen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551669099 ISBN 13: 9781551669090

Publisher: Mira, 2002

Synopsis

Determined to remember the tragic night long ago that led to her sister's disappearance and her mother's appointment as the first female governor of Indiana, Jenna Kirk returns to her childhood home and is soon plunged into a world of terror where someone close to her will stop at nothing to keep the truth buried forever. Original.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

On Jenna Kirk's 16th birthday the day of her first kiss from her longtime crush, Mace MacCamon, her charismatic older sister's boyfriend Jenna and her sister, Mandi, are abducted from the yard of their home in a Midwestern quarry town. Several days later, Jenna alone is found wandering in her grandfather's stone forest of eerie carvings, drugged, with her memory gone. Fifteen years later, Jenna returns to uncover the truth. But as she regains her memory, someone tries to scare her off, and the culprit may be someone she trusts most: Mace, who was the prime suspect in Mandi's presumed death; Jenna's driven mother, who's utilized the tragedy to become Indiana's first female lieutenant governor; a psychiatrist who has urged Jenna to repress rather than work through her past; or a stalker who's either a Norman Bates¤type psycho in women's clothes or Mandi back from the dead. While ex-English teacher Harper's style suffers at times from a tendency toward unnecessary explanation (a treetop scene where Mace puns to Jenna, Me Tarzan, you Jen does not require the clarification, You mean Jane ), her deft juxtaposition of the cast of creepy characters and a smalltown setting oozing Brady Bunch wholesomeness makes for a haunting read.
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Review:

" . . . as many twists and turns as a deep limestone cave . . . an exciting, chilling puzzle, a real page turner." -- Lisa Jackson

About this edition

• Publisher: Mira
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1551669099
• ISBN 13: 9781551669090
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400