The Virgin of Small Plains
by Nancy Pickard | Mystery & Thrillers | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0340921854 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0340921854 Global Overview for this book
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Hodder Paperback 2006
335 pages
Book Description:
January 1987, Small Plains, Kansas. On the night of the decade's worst blizzard, a boy discovers the naked corpse of a young woman. No one can identify her, so she is buried with a simple gravestone.
Seventeen years later, the mysterious dead girl - the "Virgin of Small Plains" - has inspired a local myth. Strange miracles have visited those who faithfully tend her grave, and the town becomes a haven for an onslaught of spiritual seekers and the terminal ill.
When the mysterious Mitch Newquist reappears and a tornado devastates Small Plains, the truth begins to emerge. What really happened seventeen years ago? Why did Mitch vanish - abandoning his first love, Abby - the night the Virgin's body was found?
And why are some of the town's leading citizens so determined that the truth remain buried?
335 pages
Book Description:
January 1987, Small Plains, Kansas. On the night of the decade's worst blizzard, a boy discovers the naked corpse of a young woman. No one can identify her, so she is buried with a simple gravestone.
Seventeen years later, the mysterious dead girl - the "Virgin of Small Plains" - has inspired a local myth. Strange miracles have visited those who faithfully tend her grave, and the town becomes a haven for an onslaught of spiritual seekers and the terminal ill.
When the mysterious Mitch Newquist reappears and a tornado devastates Small Plains, the truth begins to emerge. What really happened seventeen years ago? Why did Mitch vanish - abandoning his first love, Abby - the night the Virgin's body was found?
And why are some of the town's leading citizens so determined that the truth remain buried?
