Sorrow road

By Julia Keller

Subjects: Femmes détectives -- Romans, nouvelles, etc, Investigation, large print books, Meurtre -- Enquêtes -- Romans, nouvelles, etc, Women private investigators, Large type books, Private investigators, fiction, Crime, fiction, Murder, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Fiction, Murder -- Investigation, Women private investigators -- Fiction, Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, Livres en gros caractères

Description: "From the small towns of Appalachia they came, the young men who joined the fight for liberty in World War II. Now they are elderly, and some of them--like Harmon Strayer, father of prosecutor Bell Elkins's former law school classmate--suffer from Alzheimer's. When Harmon dies in an Alzheimer's care facility from what appear to be natural causes, Bell confronts a mystery that brims with questions about memory, grief and the lethal cost of burying the past. During a winter of record snow and cold, Bell and the people of Acker's Gap, West Virginia, face isolation and hardship--and the threat from a killer who preys upon the old and the sick and the helpless"--