![]() ![]() Yet, the truth about Adam's murder may lie closer to home. After his death, she delves into his past for clues to who killed him. It is Sal who finds Adam's body, charred almost beyond recognition, half a mile from his uncles' compound.Nora Wheaton, the school's social studies teacher, sensed a kindred spirit in Adam – another soul bound to Lovelock by guilt and duty. When the body is identified as local math teacher Adam Merkel, a small Nevada town is rocked to its core by a brutal and calculated murder.In the seven months he worked at Lovelock's middle school, the quiet and seemingly unremarkable Adam Merkel had formed a bond with just one of his students: Sal Prentiss, a lonely sixth grader who lives with his uncles on a desolate ranch in the hills. ![]() A boy walks into a fire station, pale with the shock of a grisly discovery.A middle school teacher worries when her colleague is late for work. Nominated for the 2021 Edgar Award for Best NovelA body burns in the high desert hills. ![]()
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