
Private investigator Annie Gore returns to her Appalachian roots to probe the cold case of three missing girls in a secretive mountain town.
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Private investigator Annie Gore returns to her Appalachian roots to probe the cold case of three missing girls in a secretive mountain town.
An Instant USA Today Bestseller A ninth-generation Appalachian, Archer Sullivan brings the mountains of North Carolina to life in The Witch’s Orchard , a wonderfully atmospheric novel that introduces private investigator Annie Gore. Former Air Force special investigator Annie Gore joined the military right after high school to escape the fraught homelife of her childhood. Now, she’s getting by as a private investigator, and her latest case takes her to an Appalachian holler not unlike the one wh...
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No sexual content depicted.
Implied threats and harm in child disappearances; no graphic depictions.
Mild profanity used occasionally by characters.
References to potion-making with herbal elements; no drug or alcohol focus.
No LGBTQIA+ representation present.
No religious themes present.
Central Appalachian folklore of a witch trading apples, turning girls into birds; includes potion-making and card reading.
No evidence found in available sources.
Themes of female power, community myths, and desperation in insular Appalachian setting.
No self-harm or suicide depicted.
Child abductions and keeping of missing girls; references to fraught childhoods and folklore of famine, maternal desperation.
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