“Lindsay Hill’s Sea of Hooks begins with a man named Christopher Westall staring at his mother’s asphyxiated body. Her suicide is only the latest in a long series of traumatic events in Christopher’s life, and it creates an emotional fissure that widens into a vast gulf between life before and after her death. The narrative …
“In the first story of April Wilder’s This Is Not an Accident, a nervous young woman doesn’t have an accident. In fact, she’s so preoccupied by the fact that she hasn’t had a car accident that she finds herself compulsively driving four hours to Iowa just to be sure she didn’t have an accident on …
“One night in a small Michigan town in the late 1970s, a young woman named Beth leaves her job as a hotel receptionist and disappears into the snow. When the ice thaws, her remains surface by the side of the road; her unsolved murder becomes another dark moment in the town’s history. Twenty-five years later, …
