book 16

hey, i'm actually just where i was at this time last year, so i guess i'm not as behind on my reading as i thought. which is really amazing if you factor in the amount of time i've spent lately not working on my master's paper and opting to watch basketball instead.

the virgin of small plains: a novel of suspense, nancy pickard
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i picked this up randomly from the browsing shelf because the cover looked interesting and it was newish. also, it's spring break and i felt like reading a mystery. pretty much: beautiful naked girl found frozen to death in the middle of a blizzard small plains, kansas in 1987. "no one" knows who she is (except the people who do, and they go to great lengths to hide her identity). fast forward almost twenty years and abby, whose boyfriend mitch mysteriously disappeared the morning after the body was discovered, decides she wants to figure out what's up. she's inspired by a sudden tabloid interest in the anonymous dead woman (who has been nicknamed "the virgin of small plains") after a cancer victim claims that the virgin has miraculous healing powers. i was actually pretty surprised to find out the real deal, and i was really interested the whole time, but sadly, the ending felt rushed and i had to knock a few 'bots off for that.