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One of Amazon's Best Books of December 2019!

Fans of Jodi Picoult and Fredrik Backman will fall for this tenderhearted debut mystery following a young girl on a quest to save her family.

I know my brother is dead. But sometimes Mama gets confused.

There's plenty about the grownup world that six-year-old Aoife doesn't understand. Like what happened to her big brother Theo and why her mama is in the hospital instead of home where she belongs. Uncle Donny says she just needs to be patient, but Aoife's sure her mama won't be able to come home until Aoife learns what really happened to her brother. The trouble is no one wants to talk about Theo because he was murdered. But by whom?

With her imaginary friend Teddy by her side and the detecting skills of her nosy next door neighbor, Aoife sets out to uncover the truth about her family. But as her search takes her from the banks of Theo's secret hideout by the river to the rooftops overlooking Detroit, Aoife will learn that some secrets can't stay hidden forever and sometimes the pain we bury is the biggest secret of them all.

Driven by Aoife's childlike sincerity and colored by her vivid imagination, All That's Bright and Gone illuminates the unshakeable bond between families--and the lengths we'll go to bring our loved ones home.

Editorial Review

An Amazon Best Book of December 2019: All That's Bright and Gone is both a murder mystery and a coming-of-age story and at the center of both is a precocious 6-year-old, Aoife (pronounced EE-fa). The men in blue coats have taken Aoife’s mom to hospital and the most confusing part for Aoife is that while they were doing it, her mom was talking to her brother Theo as though he were still alive. Now, her Uncle Donny has come to stay in her house to take care of her, but even with a functioning adult at home, Aoife still feels in the dark and neglected, knowing there is much she is not being told. Encouraged by her friend and neighbor, a pint-sized, would-be sleuth named Hannah, and Aoife’s imaginary friend Teddy, this funny, brave, and imaginative little girl decides that discovering who murdered Theo is the only way to put her Mom’s mind at rest so she can leave the hospital and come home. But the secrets Aoife, and Teddy, uncover may be more than she was prepared for or can understand. Perfect for fans of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, All That's Bright and Gone goes to the heart of what we are prepared to do to keep our family safe, from dangers within and without, and to bring them home. —Vannessa Cronin, Amazon Book Review

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