These Shallow Graves
By: Jennifer DonnellyLocation: FIC DON
Genre: Historical Fiction
Be careful how deep
you bury
the past !
"A twisted tale of secrets, murder, love and revenge"
USA Today.com
"Its fun, feminist and so fast paced that you will be whipping through the book to solve the mystery" Bustle.com
Jo Montfort is
beautiful and rich, and soon like all the girls in her class she ll
graduate from finishing school and be married off to a wealthy bachelor.
Which is the last thing she wants. Jo dreams of becoming a writer a
newspaper reporter.
Wild aspirations aside, Jo s life seems perfect until tragedy strikes: her father is found dead. The story is that Charles Montfort shot himself while cleaning his revolver, but the more Jo hears about her father s death, the more something feels wrong. And then she meets Eddie a young, smart, infuriatingly handsome reporter at her father s newspaper and it becomes all too clear how much she stands to lose if she keeps searching for the truth. But now it might be too late to stop.
The past never stays buried forever. Life is dirtier than Jo Montfort could ever have imagined, and this time the truth is the dirtiest part of all.
Wild aspirations aside, Jo s life seems perfect until tragedy strikes: her father is found dead. The story is that Charles Montfort shot himself while cleaning his revolver, but the more Jo hears about her father s death, the more something feels wrong. And then she meets Eddie a young, smart, infuriatingly handsome reporter at her father s newspaper and it becomes all too clear how much she stands to lose if she keeps searching for the truth. But now it might be too late to stop.
The past never stays buried forever. Life is dirtier than Jo Montfort could ever have imagined, and this time the truth is the dirtiest part of all.
Lovely prose, historical intrigue, unique characters and setting. I devoured this book! Ruta Sepetys,
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