Sulfur Heart

by Brooke Carter

Overview

Will’s father was just found dead in a pile of sulfur.

He was a retired cop who'd been working as a night security guard at the SulCorp sulfur mill. Now, to determine if his death was a tragic accident or something more sinister, Will must return to the place he swore he'd never set foot in again. Hope is a little town struggling in the shadow of a major metropolis, haunted by a history of death, violence and crime. And then there’s the girl Will never thought he’d see again, Eve. But falling back in love with her isn’t the only complication he will have to face while investigating his father’s possible murder. Could his search for the truth cause history to repeat itself?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781459831605
Publisher:	Orca Book Publishers
Publication date:	04/12/2022
Series:	Orca Soundings Series
Edition description:	High readability edition
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.44(d)
Lexile:	HL490L (what's this?)
Age Range:	12 - 17 Years

About the Author

Brooke Carter is a Canadian novelist and the author of several contemporary books for teens, including Double or Nothing (Junior Library Guild Gold Selection), Learning Seventeen (CCBC Best Book for Teens) and Sulfur Heart from the Orca Soundings line. She earned her MFA in creative writing at UBC.

Editorial Reviews

A wonderfully dark and gritty story with all the elements readers crave in a noir novel…And it will leave every reader craving more.

The British Columbia Review

Well-imagined and includes several surprises and turns. For a short novel, the story is quite robust and provides enough detail to fill in all of the gaps and then some. Highly Recommended.

CM: Canadian Review of Materials

2022-03-02
A young man is drawn back to his hometown after his father’s mysterious death.

Two years after he ran away from the small industrial town of Hope and moved to the city, Will Homer, now 18, receives a phone call letting him know that his ex-cop father has turned up dead, his body found in a pile of sulfur, presumably a suicide. Will’s own disappearance coincided with the death of the wealthy sulfur mill’s chairman, Aaron Sullivan, who was rumored to have a secret—and now missing—stash of gold. Despite knowing he will face questions about Sullivan’s death and the gold if he shows his face, Will is drawn back by the loss of his father as well as by memories of Eve, the love of his life and the girl he’s never stopped thinking about. As he starts looking into his father’s death, he discovers that there seems to be even more at stake. Fast-paced with an ominous tone, this mystery within a mystery makes every detail count. The development of character and setting are minimized in order to focus on the plot, and the carefully chosen vocabulary will make this work accessible to developing readers. Sex scenes and drug use are described briefly and in frank terms. Characters default to White.

A twisty noir mystery that will keep even the most reluctant of readers on the edges of their seats. (Thriller. 14-18)

Kirkus Reviews