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The Three Deaths of Willa Stannard

A Thriller

by Kate Robards
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A missing child, a small town’s secrets, and a desperate killer set the stage for a darkly wrought debut novel that will haunt readers long after the last page. Perfect for fans of Julia Heaberlin and Chevy Stevens.
It’s not that they’ve been all that close in the past few years, but sisters Willa and Sawyer Stannard are bonded by the ups and downs of the life they’ve lived with their mercurial single mother. When Willa is found dead in her apartment from an apparent suicide, Sawyer just knows it’s not possible. A cryptic note from the acclaimed broadcast journalist leads police to rule out foul play. Shattered by grief—and obsessed by the idea that her sister’s death was not a suicide—Sawyer plunges into a search for the truth.
When Sawyer learns that Willa was writing an explosive true crime book about the decades-old disappearance of a toddler that rocked a small town hundreds of miles away, she’s even more convinced that Willa’s death is suspicious. Believing it is somehow connected to the research Willa was doing for the book, Sawyer begins to trace her sister’s steps, deep into a community she can’t begin to understand and to a truth that could destroy her as easily as it did Willa.
As she masterfully ratchets up the suspense, Robards never loosens her grip in a debut novel sure to keep readers guessing—and talking.

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    June 20, 2023

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      • ISBN: 9781639103485

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      Starred review from April 1, 2023
      A spin instructor who can't believe that her sister killed herself looks into the circumstances of her death and unearths a shocking series of secrets that go back to their childhood. Willa Stannard was a news anchor on KZTV in Chicago until a panic attack ended her career in the middle of a broadcast. When she's found in her bathtub, her wrists slit and a cryptic note to her sister nearby, all the evidence points to suicide. But Sawyer Stannard can't believe that the sister she'd grown away from years ago would end her own life. Despite a distinct lack of encouragement from Officer Mallory Curry, she fastens on a true-crime story Willa had pseudonymously immersed herself in for TruthShout, a local newspaper: the kidnapping 26 years ago of 18-month-old Melody Wynne from her parents' home in rural Michigan. Corbin Campbell, the Trowbridge County deputy who took the lead on the case, never found enough evidence to arrest either Abel Bowen, a neighbor of the Wynnes' with a criminal past, or self-anointed psychic Merrill Vaughn, who inserted himself into the investigation repeatedly until he died. Why was Willa so obsessed with the ancient case that she not only covered it for TruthShout, but prepared a book-length manuscript, Cry of the Cicadas: The True Story of Melody Wynne's Disappearance, for literary agent Gemma Matthews? And why does Gemma, who's supported the project enthusiastically, suddenly have cold feet about submitting it for publication without more solid evidence supporting its conclusions? Producing that evidence will exact a fearsome cost on Sawyer, with anxious readers half a step behind her. A welcome debut that's both a fleet thriller and a pathology of sisterhood at its most harrowing.

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