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Greta

Pages
209
Published
2024
Language
English

Synopsis

In the small Welsh village of Bethesda, rich and popular Greta Pugh is found dead in the local quarry, and a community already familiar with loss is thrown into fear and suspicion.

Shane, a classmate of Greta's and the son of the Pugh family's housekeeper, watches from the margins as the police question everyone he knows and old secrets start to surface. Unable to leave it alone, he begins quietly investigating what happened, pulling at threads that put his own family and friendships at risk.

The deeper he digs, the more the polished image of the dead girl comes apart, and he is forced to ask who Greta really was and what could have driven someone to kill her.

Set against the close, watchful world of a former quarrying town, the story moves through grief, class divides, and the things neighbors choose not to say aloud. As Shane edges closer to the truth, the cost of knowing grows heavier, and the village's careful surface threatens to crack open for good.

How it reads

Prose complexity 3/10
Content warnings (1)
Violence

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