The group included her once close friend, the popular Kaycee Mitchell, who disappeared during their senior year, shortly after the teens in the clique came down with a mysterious illness. As a teen, Abby was the target of a mean-girls clique that constantly and, at times, sadistically, bullied her. Since then, her only contact with the town has been her sporadic calls to her abusive, reclusive father. One could easily see Ritter playing the part of her heroine, Chicago lawyer Abby Williams, whose return to Barrens, Indiana, brings back the bad memories and fears she had growing up there.Ībby left Barrens a decade ago, right after high school graduation. With tantalizing twists, slow-burning suspense, and a remote rural town of just five claustrophobic square miles, Bonfire is a dark exploration of what happens when your past and present collide.'Bonfire' (Crown Archetype), by Krysten RitterĪs an actress, Krysten Ritter has been building a solid career playing characters on the edge - the doomed Jane in 'Breaking Bad,' the lead in 'Don't Trust the B- in Apartment 23' and especially her role in 'Jessica Jones' and the same role in 'The Defenders.'Īs an author, Ritter brings that same unconventional, edgy approach to her engrossing suspense novel, 'Bonfire.' Deliciously moody with a noirish undertone, 'Bonfire' ignites a first-rate mystery resplendent with shadowy scenery, a tight plot and a lead character that is both fragile and strong. And when she unearths an even more disturbing secret-a ritual called 'The Game'-it will threaten reputations, and lives, in the community and risk exposing a darkness that may consume her. But as she tries desperately to find out what really happened to Kaycee, troubling memories begin to resurface and she begins to doubt her own observations.

Tasked with investigating Optimal Plastics, the town's most high-profile company and economic heart, Abby begins to find strange connections to Barrens's biggest scandal from more than a decade ago, involving the popular Kaycee Mitchell and her closest friends-just before Kaycee disappeared for good.Ībby knows the key to solving any case lies in the weak spots, the unanswered questions. Now working as an environmental lawyer in Chicago, she has a thriving career, a modern apartment, and her pick of meaningless one-night stands.īut when a new case takes her back home to Barrens, Indiana, the life Abby painstakingly created begins to crack.

It has been ten years since Abby Williams left home and scrubbed away all visible evidence of her small-town roots. From actress, producer, and writer Krysten Ritter, a gripping, tightly wound suspense novel about a woman forced to confront her past in the wake of small-town corruption

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