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My Sunshine Away by M.O. Walsh

My Sunshine Away

by M.O. Walsh
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  • Feb 10, 2015, 320 pages
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  • Apr 2016, 320 pages
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Regardless, Lindy never came down for dinner.

She was likely thought by her parents to be yapping with friends on the telephone, twirling the cord around her young fingers, until her mother, a woman named Peggy, made her evening rounds with the laundry basket. It was then she saw a pair of underpants in the bathroom, dotted with bright red blood, lying next to a single running shoe. The other shoe, a blue Reebok, was missing.

By this time, her daughter Lindy was curled in her bed and concussed.

A bed that just that morning had been a child's.

I should tell you now that I was one of the suspects.

Hear me out.

Let me explain.

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Excerpted from My Sunshine Away by M.O. Walsh. Copyright © 2015 by M.O. Walsh. Excerpted by permission of Putnam Books. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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