She is ten years old. She loves storybooks, puppies, and murder.
Her mother knows. She has always known. And still she runs with her, steals for her, looks the other way—because she is her little girl. Because somewhere beneath those flat, patient eyes is the child she once rocked to sleep.
Isn’t she?
In the gritty, pre-everything America of the early 1980s, a mother and daughter are leaving a quiet trail of bodies across state lines. When a dangerous man steps into their orbit and the police close in from behind, the mother faces the question she has spent a decade outrunning.
What is she raising? What has she always been raising? And what happens when her daughter decides she’s better off alone?
The Girl in Green is a razor-edged psychological thriller that lives in the space between devotion and horror. Because the most terrifying thing about a monster isn’t what it does. It’s how much you love it.
Set in the 1980s, Beth and Amy are a mother-daughter duo on the run from police. The headlines are filled with the violent crimes of what the media has dubbed Kid Vicious and Bonnie Rotten. Not since the Bad Seed has a little girl been so cold and manipulative. Amy seems to have no human emotion whatsoever, but she has learned how to mimic them to get what she wants. Victims never see her switchblade coming until it's too late.
Beth knows there's something wrong with Amy, but instead of trying to seek help for her, she becomes an accomplice. Constantly on the move from one seedy hovel to the next, this is the only life they have known since Amy was born.
The backstory of Beth's childhood and the events leading up to her becoming a pregnant runaway were just as disturbing as her present situation of being the mother of a 10-year-old serial killer. Amy seems completely devoid of humanity and filled with pure evil.
I do need to warn you that there is animal cruelty in this book. I am unable to tell you how graphic it is because when I reached that part, I skipped ahead several pages. I can't handle reading about any kind of animal cruelty or torture, and if it had happened earlier in the book, it would have landed in my DNF pile, but I was several chapters in, so proceed with caution. This book is dark, gritty, and in your face harsh.
My thanks to Crystal Lake Publishing/Sinister Smile Press for the e-ARC
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