Where the Crawdads Sing

For many years in Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the coast of North Carolina, whispers circulated about the Marsh Girl.
And when in late 1969 the body of Chase, the local playboy, was found, the townspeople immediately suspected Kya Clark... - the girl who had lived as a recluse in the marshes since early childhood.
Sensitive and intelligent, Kya truly called the marsh her home, and her friends were the birds and animals of the wetlands. But the time for growing up arrives, and Kya discovers an entirely different side of life, awakening a desire to love and be loved. And Kya joyfully plunges into this unknown new world - until the unthinkable happens.
The novel by renowned biologist Delia Owens is a true ode to nature, a tender coming-of-age story about solitude, about the connections between people, and whether people truly need each other at all.
At the same time, it is a dark, mysterious tale of a murder that may or may not have occurred.