Best Kept Secrets (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780727890269)

Nora heads home to Chateau in search of a fresh start, but her arrival comes at a time of social unrest that threatens to uncover long-hidden secrets.

Nora Best is done running. She's heading to her hometown of Chateau, to the grand Quail House, to stay with her mother and claim the great American privilege of starting over. But she might find it is hard to start over when the past is catching up . . .

The night Nora arrives in Chateau, a white police officer shoots and kills Robert Evans, a young black man. The officer in question is Nora's school sweetheart, Alden Tydings. What really happened that night? Did Alden act in self-defense as he claims?

Robert is the nephew of Bobby Evans, a man whose murder during the race protests of 1967 was never solved. Bobby and his sister, Grace, used to work at Quail House before Nora was born and, as tensions in Chateau rise, Nora begins to uncover secrets within her family home that could upend the lives of everyone in town . . .

Author: Gwen Florio
ISBN-10: 0727890263
ISBN-13: 9780727890269
Publisher: Severn House
Language: English
Published: 09/07/2021
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2021
Booklist 10/01/2021 pg. 29