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Keeper BY JESSICA MOOR
When Katie Straw’s body is pulled from the waters of a well-used suicide spot, the local police are all but ready to rule it as just that – suicide. The residents of a women’s shelter where Katie worked, however, think otherwise. To them, it’s clearly murder. But after spending years escaping the men whose violence led them to the shelter, how much of this is their own paranoia? Detective Dan Whitworth considers it a tragic but open-and-shut case, yet he soon discovers that not everything was as it seemed with Katie.
Inspired by her own experiences with survivors of domestic abuse, Moor has spun a powerful tale about male violence in all its forms. The story of how each woman came to be at the is more than a murder mystery – it highlights the plight of women who escape abuse at the hands of their spouses.
