Private investigator Annie Gore grew up in Appalachia and got out as quickly as she could after high school. But when a young man from a small Appalachian town offers his savings to hire her to find his missing sister, she can't say no, despite her intuition that the girl is long dead (she's been gone for a decade, after all). It's an intriguing case if nothing else, as three girls were kidnapped and one was almost immediately returned, though she's been mute since the incident and unable to provide information to help investigators find the other two girls. As Annie starts poking around the holler, she learns that not everything is as it seems, and that the local folklore of a witch and her magical orchard have permeated people's impressions of what may have happened to the girls.
This was an intriguing Appalachian mystery, full of complex characters, any one of whom could be the culprit. That said, I was a little thrown by a twist at the end, which felt HIGHLY unlikely, given the small town in which the book is set. However, go ahead and give it a read — or better yet, a listen, as the audiobook is very well done.
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