The American Girl
By Kate Horsley

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.