An] emotion-charged mystery....
Based on a true chapter in the troubled history of early treatment for psychiatric illness, The Cold Way Home is a story of death and life, of despair and hope, of crime and - sometimes, but not always - punishment..
To solve the mystery of what happened in these woods where she played as a child, Bell and her partners - former sheriff Nick Fogelsong and former deputy Jake Oakes - must confront the tangled history of Wellwood and its dark legacy, while each grapples with a private torment.
And it is here that Bell Elkins - prosecutor turned private investigator - makes a grim discovery while searching for a missing teenager: A dead body, marred by a ghastly wound that can only mean murder.
This is all that remains of Wellwood, a psychiatric hospital for the poor that burned to the ground decades ago.
Deep in the woods just outside Acker\'s Gap, West Virginia, rises a ragged chunk of what was once a high stone wall.
Keller\'s sleuths are easy to like and the murder story is moving; but the object of fascination here is Wellwood, a state-run mental institution with a dark history as a repository for \'rebellious, unruly women.\' -- The New York Times Book Review Pulitzer Prize-winning author Julia Keller welcomes readers back to West Virginia, where her lyrical and moving stories of the people of her native state have unfolded since A Killing in the Hills , the acclaimed first novel in the series.
An] emotion-charged mystery...
