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When a girl goes missing, a family’s loyalty is put to the ultimate test.

Kirsten Hammarstrom hasn’t been back to her Wisconsin hometown in years—not since the mysterious disappearance of a local teenage girl rocked the small community and shattered her family. Kirsten was just nine years old when the girl went missing, and the last person who saw her alive was the girl's boyfriend—Kirsten’s older brother. No one knew what to believe, but the event unhinged the town and put Kirsten’s family beneath the crushing weight of suspicion.
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When a new tragedy forces Kirsten and her siblings to return home, they must confront the horrible event that changed everything all those years ago. Chilling and suspenseful, The Mourning Hours is one family's gripping story of loyalty, betrayal and forgiveness.

​Read an excerpt from
The Mourning Hours here. ​

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Praise for The Mourning Hours: 

" ... what most compels is the observant Kirsten's account of how a small town and a family disintegrate under the weight of the tragedy."
- PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY

"A nonstop thrill to read … a fast-paced, tautly-written page turner."
- Barbara Taylor Sissel, author of Evidence of Life

"Kept me on the edge of my seat throughout." 
- Mary Kubica, NYT bestselling author of The Good Girl and Pretty Baby

On Fictionophile: "
Written with an evocative sense of place and time, this debut novel doesn’t read like one. Tragedy and heartbreak are skillfully rendered."

Check out my interview with The Reading Frenzy here. 

The most fun contest ever: The Mourning Hours was the winner of the Niles Library Tournament of Books (2014)!

Finalist, the Housatonic Book Award (2014)
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  • Home
  • About paula
  • Books
    • Here We Lie
    • The Drowning Girls
    • The Fragile World
    • The Mourning Hours
  • paula's blog
  • MISCELLANEA
  • What I'm Reading
  • Contact