Hemlock Grove

by Brian McGreevy
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Description

The body of a young girl is found mangled and murdered in the woods of Hemlock Grove, Pennsylvania, in the shadow of the abandoned Godfrey Steel mill. A manhunt ensues—though the authorities aren't sure if it's a man they should be looking for. Some suspect an escapee from the White Tower, a foreboding biotech facility owned by the Godfrey family—their personal fortune and the local economy having moved on from Pittsburgh steel—where, if rumors are true, biological experiments of the most unethical kind take place. Others turn to Peter Rumancek, a Gypsy trailer-trash kid who has told impressionable high school classmates that he's a werewolf. Or perhaps it's Roman, the son of the late JR Godfrey, who rules the adolescent social scene with the casual arrogance of a cold-blooded aristocrat, his superior status unquestioned despite his decidedly freakish sister, Shelley, whose monstrous medical conditions belie a sweet intelligence, and his otherworldly control freak of a mother, Olivia.

What it’s like

ViolenceGraphic
CombatIncidental
HorrorTerrifying
SpiceModerate
ProfanityModerate

Details

First published
March 27, 2012
Pages
336
Reading time
About 7 hours
Format
Novel
Audience
Adult
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Language
English
ISBN
9781429942621
Series
Standalone

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