Julia Phillips

Two girls - sisters,eight and eleven - go missing on the shoreline of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia. In the following weeks and months, the police can turn up nothing. The tightly woven community is strongly affected and many share a connection to the crime. This book transports the reader to vistas of rugged beauty, densely wooded forests, open expanses of tundra, soaring volcanoes, and glassy seas, where social and ethnic tensions have long...