#Review of Bone Dust White by @KarinSalvala #Published @StMartinsPress ~ Crossroad Reviews

Someone is knocking at the door to Grace Adams’s house and won’t stop. Grace thinks she knows who it is, but when she looks out her bedroom window, she sees a woman she doesn’t recognize walking on the trails behind her home. The woman isn’t alone for long before a man emerges from the dark of the surrounding woods and stabs her, then retreats into the shadows, leaving her to die in the snow. Frantic, Grace calls the police but knows they’ll never arrive in time, so she herself goes to the woman and is shocked to find she’s not a stranger—and that only raises more questions.

Badly shocked, Grace is taken to the hospital, and Detective Macy Greeley is called back to the small town of Collier, Montana, where she worked a case once before. She needs to track down the killer and find out what the murder has to do with Grace, a troubled young woman whose harrowing past may have finally come in from the cold. But the town of Collier is just as hard-bitten now as it was years ago, and Macy will have to reopen old wounds as she investigates a murder that looks like it took eleven years to come to pass.

Karin Salvalaggio’s outstanding crime fiction debut, Bone Dust White, is an absolutely stunning work that signals the entrance of a major new talent.

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Biography

Karin Salvalaggio was born in West Virginia in the 1960s. Her father was career military and her mother was a homemaker. Karin has fond memories of her nomadic childhood - the hours spent on the road, the anticipation of a new life, the unpacking of the old one. She's lived in places as climatically diverse as Alaska and Florida and as culturally distinct as California and Iran. Karin attended the University of California Santa Cruz, graduating in 1989, but has lived in London, England since 1994. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Birkbeck, University of London. Her short story Walleye Junction was published in the Mechanics Institute Review 8 in 2011. Her debut novel, a thriller entitled Bone Dust White, will be out in the states in May 2014.

Debut Novel! My Fav!

Lets just say that I was attached to this book until it was over. Then I cried a little to see it go. Went back and reread it again. And I think I did that two or three times since this book showed up in my mailbox. This story is one for the books. And shouldn't be missed. So click the buttons below me and go buy it!! The main character was wonderful! She is passionate, hard working, smart, and full of surprises. This debut is a great, mouth watering, unrelenting, unforgettable, sad story that you won't be able to put down.

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Praise for Bone Dust White"The suspense meter spikes dramatically… This complicated, peel-away-layers debut procedural intoxicates from the opening page and has word-of-mouth selling power... Recommend for fans of Archer Mayor, Gwen Florio, and Craig Johnson. C.J. Box’s The Highway comes to mind, too."
--Library Journal (Debut of the Month, Starred Review)
"Salvalaggio is a stunning new voice in crime fiction, and her heroine Detective Macy Greeley is the kind of tough and complex character that I can't wait to see more of."
--Deborah Crombie, author of the New York Times bestseller The Sound of Broken Glass"As jarring as a headfirst plunge in an icy river, Bone Dust White is a stark and unforgettable reading experience; its ambience, like the bruised people whose twisted lives it traces, is chilly–and irresistible."
--Julia Keller, Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of Bitter River"In Salvalaggio’s haunting debut… the author creates a hardscrabble community of characters that readers won’t soon forget."
--Publishers Weekly