Cemetery Road

A Coconut Island Thriller

von Jerry Yonga

316 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Five schoolgirls walked to the river. Four came back.More than sixty years later, Dr. Elizabeth Mbua returns from California to Coconut Island to bury her mother, Esther, the woman she spent the last seven years caring for.Among her mother's belongings, Elizabeth discovers an old photograph, a brass key, a burial record, and three disturbing instructions: Take me home.Do not bury me beside your father.And whatever they tell you, do not let them open Grave 37.Elizabeth has come home to honor her mother's final wishes. Instead, she finds herself following a trail that reaches back to a group of schoolgirls, a disappearance no one wants to discuss, old land records, family secrets, and a promise made beside a river more than half a century ago.Someone wants the past left alone.But on Coconut Island, the past is never truly dead.As Elizabeth searches for answers, she discovers that the women who came before her carried secrets across marriages, motherhood, migration, and continents. What they buried was not simply evidence of what happened one terrible night. They buried the truth to protect one another.Now Grave 37 may expose it all.Cemetery Road is a Coconut Island thriller about mothers and daughters, friendship, migration, memory, buried history, and the extraordinary courage of ordinary women.Some secrets do not stay buried on Coconut Island.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798175502573
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 19.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published