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Who killed Emily Vaughn?
A girl with a secret…
Longbill Beach, 1982. Emily Vaughn gets ready for the prom. For an athlete, who is smart, pretty and well-liked, this night that should be the highlight of her high school career. But Emily has a secret. And by the end of the evening, that secret will be silenced forever.
An unsolved murder…
Forty years later, Emily’s murder remains a mystery. Her tight-knit group of friends closed ranks; her respected, wealthy family retreated inwards; the small town moved on from her grisly attack. But all that’s about to change.
One final chance to uncover a killer…
US Marshal Andrea Oliver arrives in Longbill Beach on her first assignment: to protect a judge receiving death threats. But, in reality, Andrea is there to find justice for Emily. The killer is still out there – and Andrea must discover the truth before she gets silenced, too…
Frances Hartmann @abel.donnelly_171
January 19, 2023
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This is a gripping story about a 40-year-old rape, a murder of the pregnant, vilified victim seven months later, and threatening letters sent to her mother, a conservative Reagan-appointed judge 40 years later. Although the rape takes place in a small beach town in Delaware in 1982, the 17-year-old victim is treated by the doctor, her school, her classmates, the townspeople, and her own parents like a hooker in 1950.