
Meet Jess Lourey, Author of Litani
Litani, the newest release from acclaimed crime novelist Jess Lourey, explores the darkness at the heart of the rural Midwest in a novel inspired by a chilling true crime.
In the summer of 1984, fourteen-year-old Frankie Jubilee, the protagonist of this gripping story, is shuttled off to Litani, Minnesota, to live with her estranged mother, a county prosecutor she barely knows. From the start, Frankie senses something uneasy going on in the small town. When a bullying gang of girls invites Frankie to The Game, she accepts, determined to find out what’s really going on in paranoia-prone Litani.
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