Innocence / a novel by Karen Novak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Novak, Karen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child sexual abuse--Fiction.

Child sexual abuse.

Genre:

Mystery fiction.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

310 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury, 2003.

Summary:

Based on a true story, Innocence unravels the mysterious tale of a small town's dark past and a current tragedy, which threatens to open old wounds and awaken old ghosts. Swifton Woods has labored for decades under the stigma of an unsolved series of abductions/rapes of eleven young girls. Leslie Stone, a thirteen year old at the time of the abductions, is now a detective and involved in a more current scandal: a party of eighth graders gets out of hand and five thirteen-year-old boys are being charged with sexual assault. As connections are made between the two events and the town erupts in anger and cries for justice, Leslie's daughter steps forward to claim that the boys are innocent. As Leslie investigates, she finds that although Molly may be right, someone, in fact, is guilty. And it may involve reliving her own childhood to find out who.

ISBN:

158234356X

OCLC:

52253299