Amelia Anne Is Dead and Gone is the spellbinding debut novel by Kat Rosenfield. Technically it's young adult fiction. But old adults will appreciate it too. It's the day after Becca's high school graduation when the bruised and broken body of an anonymous, young girl is found on the edge of town. It's been over a decade since the town's last homicide--a cut and dried affair, so to speak, in which the identities of both perpetrator and victim were known from the outset, requiring a minimum of investigation. The new homicide, of an as yet unidentified young woman, is even more brutal, unsettling and bewildering, and it threatens to shake this small community down to its core and change it forever. Becca's struggling during the summer after her graduation. She's struggling, spinning out, spiraling out of control; her heart's broken, she's nauseous, she's gaunt and spaced out and is increasingly finding solace at the bottom of a wine bott...
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