![]() ![]() Although some of the violence takes place off stage, enough of it unfolds in such detail that squeamish readers may find themselves skimming over certain passages. The boys' investigation sets off a series of beatings, confrontations and kidnappings. ![]() There, the boys find hostile, loutish villagers bent on covering up the festering corruption that lies at the town's core-and the root cause of Rachel's rape and death. ![]() Determined to find Rachel's killer so her body can be released from the coroner's office and returned home for burial, Ruben, 14, and his 17-year-old brother, the streetwise fighter Cole, travel from their London home to the tiny, dying town of Lychcombe. , Brooks's latest novel grabs and holds readers' attention from its very first chapter, in which narrator Ruben Ford, who possesses a form of second sight, senses his sister Rachel's murder on a desolate moor. With the same hint of supernatural overtones as his Lucas ![]()
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