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Bell Elkins Series

8 primary works • 13 total works
The barren beauty of an impoverished rural West Virginia mountain town is the setting for Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Julia Keller's Bell Elkins novels, featuring a prosecutor determined to see justice prevail in a dying community in this haunting mystery series.

"Bell Elkins is one of the most fully realized characters in fiction today. I ju…

Book 1

A Killing in the Hills
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3.64 · 5575 Ratings · 839 Reviews · published 2012 · 37 editions
In A Killing in the Hills, a powerful, intricate d…

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    Book 2

    Bitter River
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    3.68     · 3839 Ratings · 539 Reviews · published 2013 · 37 editions
    Phone calls before dawn are never good news. And w…

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    Book 3

    Summer of the Dead
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    3.80     · 2250 Ratings · 267 Reviews · published 2014 · 32 editions
    High summer in Acker's Gap, West Virginia but no o…

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    Book 3.5

    A Haunting of the Bones
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    3.92     · 372 Ratings · 27 Reviews · published 2014 · 3 editions
    From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Julia Keller co…

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    Book 3.6

    The Devil's Stepdaughter
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    3.88     · 343 Ratings · 19 Reviews · published 2014 · 3 editions
    The Devil's Stepdaughter, a story from Pulitzer Pr…

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    Book 3.7

    Ghost Roll
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    3.75     · 222 Ratings · 19 Reviews · published 2015 · 3 editions
    Bell Elkins, prosecuting attorney and small-town h…

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    Book 4

    Last Ragged Breath
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    3.91     · 1771 Ratings · 225 Reviews · published 2015 · 25 editions
    From the night-black depths of a coalmine to the s…

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    Book 4.5

    Evening Street
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    4.08     · 255 Ratings · 16 Reviews · published 2015 · 3 editions
    By day, she's a tough-minded prosecutor in Raythun…

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    Book 5

    Sorrow Road
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    3.80     · 1509 Ratings · 195 Reviews · published 2016 · 12 editions
    From the small towns of Appalachia they came, the …

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    Book 6

    Fast Falls the Night
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    3.87     · 1265 Ratings · 206 Reviews · published 2017 · 11 editions
    In the next powerful mystery from Julia Keller, a …

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    Book 7

    Bone on Bone
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    3.98     · 1144 Ratings · 179 Reviews · published 2018 · 8 editions
    Bone on Bone, the next powerful chapter in Pulitze…

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    Book 8

    The Cold Way Home
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    3.96     · 1174 Ratings · 167 Reviews · published 2019 · 9 editions
    In the next powerful mystery from Julia Keller, fo…

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    Book 1-4

    The Bell Elkins Series, Thus Far
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    4.18     · 22 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 2 editions
    In her powerful, intricate Bell Elkins series, Pul…

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