The Last Kid Left: A Novel

"Rosecrans Baldwin’s novel of young love, small-town desolation and bloody murder plays out like a crowded and oddly modern version of The Scarlet Letter, but one without easy nobility and where every single character is broken and walks around all day with their guts hanging out. It is a witch-hunt story for our age of witch hunts. Guilty-until-proven-innocent-by-someone-else-just-being-MORE-guilty. Like a small town news broadcast brought to vivid life using the points of view of multiple characters, each one of them less trustworthy than the last."