"The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother's Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents' yard. Twelve years later Robin's murder is still unsolved and his family remains devastated. Robin's sister Harriet - smart, insufferably determined, and influenced by the fiction of Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson, sets out to unmask his killer. Aided only by her worshipful friend Hely, Harriet...

"Lying Adulthood is a gripping, psychologically subtle and accurate novel about the tough times of growing up. The main character is a teenage girl who has to learn many family secrets, which would be difficult for any adult to cope with. Betrayal of loved ones, hatred and malicious gossip, a jewel passing from person ot person, simultaneously resolving and causing conflict ... And a first love ... How difficult it is to be a teenager! How difficult...