Real Bad Things av Kelly J. Ford

<p><b>From the author of <i>Cottonmouths</i>, a <i>Los Angeles Review</i> Best Book of 2017, comes an evocative suspense about the cost of keeping secrets and the dangers of coming home.</b></p><p>Beneath the roiling waters of the Arkansas River lie dead men and buried secrets.</p><p>When Jane Mooney’s violent stepfather, Warren, disappeared, most folks in Maud Bottoms, Arkansas, assumed he got drunk and drowned. After all, the river had claimed its share over the years.</p><p>When Jane confessed to his murder, she should have gone to jail. That’s what she wanted. But without a body, the police didn’t charge her with the crime. So Jane left for Boston—and took her secrets with her.</p><p>Twenty-five years later, the river floods and a body surfaces. Talk of Warren’s murder grips the town. Now in her forties, Jane returns to Maud Bottoms to reckon with her past: to do jail time, to face her revenge-bent mother, to make things right.</p><p>But though Jane&#8