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Barcode30053003779181
Home LocationParis-Bourbon
Call NoF GRAM
Title The lost boy of Santa Chionia / Juliet Grames.
Author Grames, Juliet, author.
CollectionAdult Fiction
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StatusHome LocationBarcodeCall NoCreated OnIssue NameCirc Status
 Paris-Bourbon30053003779181F GRAM7/31/2024 Available

Catalog Details

Personal Name Grames, Juliet, author.
Title Statement The lost boy of Santa Chionia / Juliet Grames.
Edition Statement First edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.
Physical Description 399 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Content Type text txt rdacontent
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier
Summary, Etc. "Calabria, 1960. Francesca Loftfield, a twenty-seven-year-old, starry-eyed American, arrives in the isolated mountain village of Santa Chionia tasked with opening a nursery school. There is no road, no doctor, no running water or electricity. And thanks to a recent flood that swept away the post office, there's no mail, either. Most troubling, though, is the human skeleton that surfaced after the flood waters receded. Who is it? And why don't the police come and investigate? When an old woman begs Francesca to help determine if the remains are those of her long-missing son, Francesca begins to ask a lot of inconvenient questions. As an outsider, she might be the only person who can uncover the truth. Or she might be getting in over her head. As she attempts to juggle a nosy landlady, a suspiciously dashing shepherd, and a network of local families bound together by a code of silence, Francesca finds herself forced to choose between the charitable mission that brought her to Santa Chionia, and her future happiness, between truth and survival. Set in the wild heart of Calabria, a land of sheer cliff faces, ancient tradition, dazzling sunlight-and one of the world's most ruthless criminal syndicates-The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia is a suspenseful puzzle mystery, a captivating romance, and an affecting portrait of a young woman in search of a meaningful life"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Missing persons Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Secrecy Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Nineteen sixties Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Young women Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Cold cases (Criminal investigation) Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term Italy, Southern Fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Historical fiction. lcgft
Index Term-Genre/Form Detective and mystery fiction. lcgft

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