If twenty-five years can discover the internet, the cell phone, this
thing called the iPod, can twenty-five years discover the secret of a
girl murdered, abandoned, by the side of the road?
That is the haunting premise of Bury This, an impressionistic literary
thriller about the murder of a young girl in small-town Michigan in
1979. Beth Krause was by all intents a good little girl - member of the
church choir, beloved daughter of doting parents, friend to the
downtrodden. But dig a little deeper into any small town, and conflicts
and jealousies begin to appear. And somewhere is that heady mix lies the
answer to what really happened to Beth Krause.
Her unsolved murder becomes the stuff of town legend, and twenty-five
years later the case is re-ignited when a group of film students start
making a documentary on Beth's fateful life. The town has never fully
healed over the loss of Beth, and the new investigation calls into light
several key characters: her father, a WWII vet; her mother, once the
toast of Manhattan; her best friend, abandoned by her mother and left to
fend for herself against an abusive father; and the detective, just a
rookie when the case broke, haunted by his inability to bring Beth's
murderer to justice. All of these passions will collide once the
identity of Beth's murderer is revealed, proving once again that some
secrets can never stay buried.
