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2000s: If you go down to the woods today…feel the Rath of what you find or what finds you…
The Silent Girls
What you need to know before your trail
Frank Rath thought he was done with murder when he turned in his detective’s badge to become a private investigator and raise a daughter alone. Then the police in his remote rural community of Canaan find an ’89 Monte Carlo abandoned by the side of the road, and the beautiful teenage girl who owned the car seems to have disappeared without a trace.
Soon Rath’s investigation brings him face-to-face with the darkest abominations of the human soul.
With the consequences of his violent and painful past plaguing him, and young women with secrets vanishing one by one, he discovers once again that even in the smallest towns on the map, evil lurks everywhere—and no one is safe.
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New Hampshire
NH – Mount Monadnock
“Rath drove north on his dirt road, past the enormous,looming granite face of Canaan Monadnock which gave way to flat farmland with the abruptness of the Fundy Escarpment smacking up to the Atlantic’s edge; a geologic anomaly in a state of warm, aged mountains that folded into gentle foothills and gradually leveled out into Lake Champlain to the west and the Connecticut River to the east.”
Canaan
The small rural community where much of the action takes place. Where the car is abandoned.
Rath has always been obsessed with the violence of nature and how it shaped the physical world. As he got older, he becomes just as interested if not more so by the nature of violence in the human world.
But when people say that violence doesn’t happen in rural areas like this one, it’s as if “violence had forgotten to keep itself within some prescribed geographic boundary”
Booktrail Boarding Pass: The Silent Girls
Author/Guide: Eric Rickstad Destination: New Hampshire, Canaan Departure Time: 2000s
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