An award-winning short story writer ranges through dark territory in this Brilliant first novel:

Punky Lucia Moberg turns sixteen in a week. She steals CDs from stores, argues with Mom, pines for the rebel boy next door. But adolescence ends fast in a mall parking lot when Luc’s professor father is shot dead in an apparent botched stickup.

The killer flees, and so ignites an inferno that will engulf all the women it touches: a mother whose domestic life is shrouded in darkness, a pregnant outlaw desperate for a secure life, a dogged cop atoning for her own family’s collapse, and Lucia herself, caught in the peril and violence that surrounds her.

When their desperate lives collide, these women must each choose where to aim their last shots at redemption, even as they face a gang of barbaric thugs who torch homes and lives for a thrill.

PYRES released by St. Martin's Minotaur. Release date: October 16th 2007 c.320p. ISBN 978-0-312-36397-0.
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