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In the quiet stillness of a deserted theme park in the Catskill Mountains, fourteen-year-old Elisabeth Glass commits suicide. By all appearances, her death is a classic case of teenage depression and despair. She slashes her wrists inside the Haunted Hotel, sprawled across a bed used as nothing but a prop. End of story. Or is it the beginning? Elisabeth’s death sets off a chain of events, affecting the lives of her friends and acquaintances. Danielle, an up-and-coming snowboarding star, suspects foul play. Yet this high school graduate’s gut instinct leads nowhere. Shadows darken. Doubt intensifies. What happened to Elisabeth
Glass? As Danielle seeks to uncover secrets that someone—who?—wants
to keep buried, a small town will be shaken to its very core,
and friendships and dreams will never be the same.
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Reviews
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“ .
. . Desperado City is a serious work,
one that a parent might read and pass along to a youngster hoping
to offer an example that life can be hard, that the people you
meet along the way and call “friend” can hurt you,
and that it is best to seek love that gives rather than takes.” “What
a fascinating and insightful novel [Desperado City]
is. Presenting more than just an exquisitely assembled coming-of-age
novel, Coleman slices deep into her characters’ lives
with sympathy and unflinching candor that by the end is more
than just a sum of their stories and blesses us with grace.” “. . . this is an interesting look at teenage brooding and anxiety amplified by a homicide.” ~Harriet
Klausner, MidwestBookReviews.com (August2009)
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