{"product_id":"9781250089625","title":"Fast Falls the Night: A Bell Elkins Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the next powerful mystery from Julia Keller, a murder investigation leads West Virginia prosectuing attorney Bell Elkins to the shattering truth about her own past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on a real-life event, Pulitzer Prize-winner Julia Keller’s latest Bell Elkins novel \u003ci\u003eFast Falls the Night\u003c\/i\u003e takes place in a single 24-hour period, unfurling against the backdrop of a shattering personal revelation that will change Bell’s life forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first drug overdose comes just after midnight, when a young woman dies on the dirty floor of a gas station bathroom. To the people of the small town of Acker’s Gap, West Virginia, it is just another tragedy. It is sad—but these days, depressingly familiar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut then there is another overdose. And another. And another.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProsecutor Bell Elkins soon realizes that her Appalachian hometown is facing its starkest challenge yet: a day of constant heroin overdoses from a batch tainted with a lethal tranquilizer. While the clock ticks and the bodies fall, Bell and her colleagues desperately track the source of the deadly drug—and engage in fierce debates over the wisdom of expending precious resources to save the lives of self-destructive addicts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47046184304880,"sku":"9781250089625","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781250089625_p0.jpg?v=1763702334","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781250089625","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}