My Sunshine Away

"A close-knit neighborhood in Baton Rouge, La., is forever changed after a teenage girl is attacked “beneath the first busted streetlight in the history of Piney Creek Road.” As I started this novel, I thought, “Do I need another girl-in peril-story written by a man, from the point of view of a man?” But M.O. Walsh’s writing — stewed in secrets and Southern humidity — pulled me in, and his ending made me want to pull the reading equivalent of a U-turn to double back and reread from the very beginning."