It's a good murder mystery, which while about an attractive family with secrets threatening their survival as a family, it also has the depths of a good literary read. It has a lot of fascinating backstory and photos that shed light on Roy's inspiration for her first novel. Kansas itself seems menacing, with dangerous roads and tumbleweed that looks like a monster hanging from the fence.

Bent Road has been optioned for film in 2012 by Cross Creek Pictures with Mark Mallouk to adapt and Benderspink to produce. Also, too many far-fetched points to be realistic: The main one being that the father has stayed away from his hometown for 20 years because of a tragedy involving his sister. There is a lot of violence and some raw scenes and the narrative sometimes is very suspenseful and quite bloody.It is through Evie most of all that Roy makes her point about inevitability and what lengths families go to — they even kill — to protect themselves. In her promising debut novel Bent Road, Lori Roy proves that dark secrets hide even in the most wide-open places. There is a breakfast bar and ample room for freestanding dining furniture whilst the room has inset ceiling lighting, a stone tiled floor covering with underfloor heating, is double glazed to two aspects with patio doors leading out into the rear garden. This novel is Lori Roy's first with a suspenseful Gothic center whose mystery is not solved until the final page.

The landscape is achingly depicted with tumbleweeds blowing down Bent Tree road and snow trapping characters inside while Ray threatens Ruth, Evie and Celia. Bent Road [1] ( ISBN 978-0-525-95183-4) is a book written by Lori Roy [2] [3] and published by Dutton (now owned by the Penguin Group [4]) on 31 March 2011 which later went on to win the Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author in 2012. The local council acquired the cemetery in 1958 and developed various extensions - the latest extension was opened in 2005.Note that occasionally some properties in a postcode may still not be eligible due to conditions on the ground, or the building structure. A spiral staircase leads to a mezzanine area and the room has double glazed mullions to front aspect. While the UK has an aging population, less residents over 65 are choosing to retire than previously. I completely agree with author Megan Abbott's praise of the novel: "Lori Roy transforms 1960s small-town Kansas into a haunting memoryscape.

Don't be fooled by the novel's apparent simplicity: What emerges from the surface is a tale of extraordinary emotional power, one of longstanding pain set against the pulsating drumbeat of social change, a rhythm the Scott family wishes could be ignored but which affects them regardless. I think a large part of my problem is that I read Dark Places recently and this book really suffered by comparison. When another girl disappears, what could be a tired trope takes on tragic, even mythic proportions in Bent Road. There is a stylish range of wall and base units with butchers block effect worksurfaces incorporating a one and a half bowl sink and drainer unit with mixer tap. On a final note, I just discovered the author's blog, and if you end up enjoying Bent Road as much as I did, you should check it out.The pace is slow, due to the author's penchant for describing significant events from the viewpoint of multiple characters. Publication information is for the USA, and (unless stated otherwise) represents the first print edition.