Nora is just your typical girl, living in a small town in 1956. She hangs out with her good friend Ellie, and has recently become friends with Cheryl and Bobbi Jo, some other neighborhood girls.Cheryl and Bobbi Jo are pretty and popular, and Nora feels almost lucky to be counted among their friends, and be invited to their parties. One day, Nora and Ellie are supposed to meet the others to walk to school together, but they wake up too late, and Cheryl and Bobbi Jo go on without them. A while later, as Nora and Ellie walk through the woods, they run into Buddy, Cheryl's ex-boyfriend, standing on the bridge. And moments later, they hear screams, and see people running from the woods. Cheryl and Bobbi Jo are dead, shot with a rifle.The entire town turns against Buddy, but we know it's not him. The real killer is no one anyone would suspect.
This book is not quite what I thought it would be. I was looking for a murder mystery, but it's really not a mystery at all. We know who the killer is, and we know why he did it, right up front. It's more of an examination of what happens in the aftermath of a crime such as this, and how people tend to see what they want to see, rather than really digging for the truth.
Interestingly enough, this is actually based on a true event. This really happened to some girls the author knew when she was a teenager. You can feel her pain, and clearly see the impact that this event left on her as a young girl.
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