Spring 2017

Crime (FF)
Hardback £12.99 9781784295769
Royal 352 pages
Trade Paperback £13.99 9781784295936
Ebook 9781784295943
Not For Sale: USA & CAN
THE LAST ACT OF
HATTIE HOFFMAN
MINDY MEJIA
A tightly-plotted psychological murder
mystery for fans of Alice Sebold’s The Lovely
Bones and Jodi Picoult’s The Pact.
Seventeen-year-old Hattie Hoffman is a talented
actress, loved by everyone in her Minnesotan
hometown. So when she’s found stabbed to death
on the opening night of her school play, the tragedy
rips through the fabric of the community.
Local sheriff Del Goodman, a good friend of Hattie’s
dad, vows to find her killer, but the investigation
yields more secrets than answers; it turns out
Hattie played as many parts offstage as on. Told
from three perspectives: Del’s, Hattie’s high school
English teacher and Hattie herself, The Last Act
of Hattie Hoffman tells the story of the real Hattie,
and what happened that final year of school when
she dreamed of leaving her small town behind . . .
Wonderfully evocative of its Midwestern setting
and with a cast of unforgettable characters, this
is a book about manipulation of relationships and
identity, about the line between innocence and
culpability, about the hope love offers and the
tragedies that occur when it spins out of control.
FICTION | MARCH | QUERCUS
Mindy Mejia received her MFA from Hamline
University and published her first novel, The
Dragon Keepers, with Ashland Creek Press. She
lives and writes in Minnesota. The Last Act of Hattie
Hoffman is her first book to be published in the UK.
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