EVERYTHING YOU WANT ME TO BE

Hattie Hoffman has spent her whole life playing many parts: the good student, the good daughter, the good citizen. When she's found brutally stabbed to death on the opening night of her high school play, the tragedy rips through the fabric of her small town community. Local sheriff Del Goodman, a family friend of the Hoffmans, vows to find her killer, but trying to solve her murder yields more secrets than answers: Hattie's acting talents ran far beyond the stage. Told from three points of view—Del, Hattie, and the new English teacher whose marriage is crumbling—EVERYTHING YOU WANT ME TO BE weaves the story of Hattie's last school year and her longing to escape the vast fields of Minnesota's heartland.

Evocative and razor-sharp, EVERYTHING YOU WANT ME TO BE is a psychologically twisty murder mystery that challenges the reader to test the lines between innocence and culpability, identity and the masks we wear, love that inspires and love that destroys.

Mindy Mejia received her MFA from Hamline University and published her first novel, The Dragon Keepers, with Ashland Creek Press. She lives and writes in Minnesota.

(A Stephanie Cabot book for the Gernert Company)

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Deutsch von Joern Ingwersen
TB Goldmann 02/18