Kathy recommends "The Home Place"

“The Home Place”, is an emotionally evocative literary mystery in which a corporate lawyer is reluctantly pulled back into her troubled family life in rural Montana.

The only Terrebonne who made it out, Alma thought she was done with Montana, with its bleak winters and stifling ways. But an unexpected call from the local police takes the successful lawyer back to her provincial hometown and pulls her into the family trouble she thought she’d left far behind: Her lying, party-loving sister, Vicky, is dead. Alma is told that a very drunk Vicky had wandered away from a party and died of exposure after a night in the brutal cold. But when Alma returns home to bury Vicky and see to her orphaned niece, she discovers that the death may not have been an accident.

“La Seur makes a very assured debut. Her characters are rich and believable; the plot is perfectly paced with mystery and romance enough to keep the reader hooked. And it’s all played against a beautifully drawn Montana backdrop.” (Booklist)
“La Seur entices readers with impeccable prose imbued with a blend of romance, nostalgia and suspense.” (Kirkus Reviews)
“The Home Place” is one of the year’s strongest debuts. (Associated Press)