Fast Boys and Pretty Girls - by Lo Patrick (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

They say you can never go home again. And sometimes, you shouldn't.

Following a semi-successful career as a teen model in New York City, Danielle Greer has moved back to the mountains of North Georgia and is living in her childhood home with her husband and four daughters. One stifling, lazy afternoon, the girls are exploring the ravine behind the house when they come across a body.

Danielle knows the body doesn't belong to Benji Law, a younger local misfit who Danielle had an illicit relationship with as a teenager. No, his body was found right away, after he was killed in a motorcycle accident on the road in front of her family's house. Danielle has a good idea who the body might be, but she doesn't know how it got there.

When local police officer Cady Benson is called in to investigate, Danielle's world is turned upside down, and she's thrust back into those dark, confusing days leading up to Benji's death, battling the things she remembers with the things she can't forget.

From the acclaimed author of The Floating Girls and The Night the River Wept comes a gritty, coming-of-age, slow-burn Southern mystery with devastating characters and a twist that will leave you aching, exposing the all-consuming, obsessive power of first love and what it can do to a person.

Review Quotes

"Is there a woman alive who never, at least once, found herself obsessively drawn to a bad boy? Now that former model Danielle Greer is married with children, she hopes she has left that destructive obsession far behind her. But author Lo Patrick is not going to let her off that easily. Patrick's skillful writing will keep the reader turning the pages as Dani's past crashes head on into her present." -- Diane Chamberlain, New York Times bestselling author of The Last House on the Street

"Fast Boys and Pretty Girls is a character-driven mystery about the wounds of first love and the hunt for belonging. Lo Patrick is a compelling southern storyteller, exploring the tension between obligation and desire." -- Audrey Ingram, author of The Summer We Ran

"Lo Patrick's latest novel, Fast Boys and Pretty Girls, tackles the complex and emotional difficulties that often come with first love. Never quite certain of where she stands with local bad boy, Benji Law, Danielle, or Dani, an up-and-coming model with a solid future, remains on uneven footing where he's concerned. Relentless in her quest for reassurance of his feelings only creates a burgeoning friction between them as well as between Dani and her family, with devastating consequences. Dani's insecurities, willfulness, and obsession are superbly depicted by Patrick, who turns a shrewd eye on the psychology of first love and family dynamics. Patrick's powerful writing makes this novel a standout, an absolutely riveting read." -- Donna Everhart, bestselling author of When the Jessamine Grows

"Fast Boys and Pretty Girls is a haunting and atmospheric mystery with turns as sharp as a Georgia back road." -- Jennifer Moorhead, Amazon Bestselling Author of Broken Bayou

"Past and present intermix in this riveting story that proves, no matter how much you might want it, you can't ever really leave your past behind. Lo Patrick does a masterful job setting the stage for the gripping suspense that had me turning the pages long into the night. " -- Suzanne Redfearn, #1 Amazon bestselling author of In an Instant