From a bright new talent comes a riveting psychological thriller about
an American exchange student in France involved in a suspicious
accident, and the journalist determined to break the story and uncover
the dark secrets a small town is hiding.
On a quiet summer morning, seventeen-year-old American exchange student
Quinn Perkins stumbles out of the woods near the small French town of
St. Roch. Barefoot, bloodied, and unable to say what has happened to
her, Quinn's appearance creates quite a stir, especially since the
Blavettes--the French family with whom she's been staying--have
mysteriously disappeared. Now the media, and everyone in the idyllic
village, are wondering if the American girl had anything to do with her
host family's disappearance.
Though she is cynical about the media circus that suddenly forms around
the girl, Boston journalist Molly Swift cannot deny she is also drawn to
the mystery and travels to St. Roch. She is prepared to do anything to
learn the truth, including lying so she can get close to Quinn. But when
a shocking discovery turns the town against Quinn and she is arrested
for the murders of the Blavette family, she finds an unlikely ally in
Molly.
As a trial by media ensues, Molly must unravel the disturbing secrets of
the town's past in an effort to clear Quinn's name, but even she is
forced to admit that the American Girl makes a very compelling murder
suspect. Is Quinn truly innocent and as much a victim as the
Blavettes--or is she a cunning, diabolical killer intent on getting away
with murder...?
Told from the alternating perspectives of Molly, as she's drawn
inexorably closer to the truth, and Quinn's blog entries tracing the
events that led to her accident, The American Girl is a deliciously
creepy, contemporary, twisting mystery leading to a shocking conclusion.
