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Collection: 7-day Books
Call Number: M
Author: McLain, Paula
Title: When the stars go dark :
Remainder of title: a novel
Summary, etc. note: "From the New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Wife comes an atmospheric novel of intertwined fate and heart-wrenching suspense: A detective hiding away from the world. A series of disappearances that reach into her past. Can solving them help her heal? Anna Hart is a seasoned missing persons detective in San Francisco with far too much knowledge of the darkest side of human nature. When unspeakable tragedy strikes her personal life, Anna, desperate and numb, flees to the Northern California village of Mendocino. She spent summers there as a child with her beloved grandparents, and now she believes it might be the only place left for her to heal. Yet the day she arrives, she learns a local teenage girl has gone missing. Anna is in no condition to become involved with the search--until a childhood friend, now the village sheriff, pleads for her help. Then, just days later, a twelve-year-old girl is abducted from her home. The crimes feel frighteningly reminiscent of the most crucial time in Anna's childhood, when a string of unsolved murders touched Mendocino. As past and present collide, Anna realizes that she has been led to this moment. The most difficult lessons of her life have given her insight into how victims come into contact with violent predators. As Anna becomes obsessed with these missing girls, she must learn that true courage means getting out of her own way and learning to let others in. Weaving together true crime, trauma theory, and a hint of the metaphysical, this tense, affecting story is about fate, unlikely redemption, and what it takes, when the worst happens, to reclaim our lives--and our faith in one another"--

International Standard Book Number: 9780593237915
International Standard Book Number: 9780593237892
: acid-free paper)
: (trade paperback ;
: acid-free paper)
: (ebook)
: (hardback ;
Canceled/invalid ISBN: 9780593237908
System control number: 21641859
Description conventions: rda
Authentication code: pcc
Geographic area code: n-us-ca
Classification number: PS3563.C383495
Item number: W47 2021
Edition number: 23
Classification number: 813/.54
Relator term: author.
Statement of responsibility, etc.: Paula McLain.
Edition statement: First edition.
Place of publication: New York, NY
Name of publisher: Ballantine Books
Date of publication: 2025
: New York :
: Ballantine Books,
: [2021]
Extent: 370 pages
Other physical details: soft cover
Dimensions: 25 cm
: rdacontent
: text
: txt
: rdamedia
: unmediated
: n
: rdacarrier
: volume
: nc
: Provided by publisher.
Source of acquisition: Ingrams 11/30/25
Purchase price: $17.00
Subject: Kidnapping victims
Subject: Young women
Subject: Detectives
Subject: Resilience (Personality trait)
Geographic subdivision: California.
Geographic subdivision: California.
Geographic subdivision: California.
Geographic subdivision: California.
Source of term: lcgft
Source of term: lcgft
Source of term: gsafd
Genre/form data or focus term: Detective and mystery fiction.
Genre/form data or focus term: Novels.
Genre/form data or focus term: Mystery fiction.
Main entry heading: McLain, Paula.
Edition: First edition
Place, publisher, and date of publication: New York : Ballantine Books, [2021]
Display text: Online version:
Title: When the stars go dark.
Record control number: (DLC) 2020034009
International Standard Book Number: 9780593237908
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: 1 shelf copy
: policy default
: rm06 2020-07-30
: rm06 2020-07-30
: rm03 2020-08-03 TW Situational
: rm03 2020-07-31 TW Situational
: rm05 2020-08-03 to Dewey Telework
: rm05 2020-08-03 to Dewey Telework
: xk06 2021-05-12 to LOAN
: xk06 2022-05-09 x-copy to LOAN
: xk06 2024-06-21 x-copy to LOAN
: xk34 2021-05-12 re-classed for fiction
: xk16 2021-06-07 x-copy to Congressional Loan
: xm06 2020-08-03 (TW situational) ; back to SSS with query

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