02117cam a2200313 i 4500 340413538 TxAuBib 20180223120000.0 161219s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016052118 9781501118456 16.00 1501118455 16.00 eng rda TxAuBib rda Moretti, Kate. The blackbird season [BOOK] : a novel / Kate Moretti. First Atria Paperback edition. New York : Atria Paperback, 2017. 338 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier In a quiet Pennsylvania town, a thousand dead starlings fall onto a high school baseball field, unleashing a horrifying and unexpected chain of events that will rock the close-knit community. Beloved baseball coach and teacher Nate Winters and his wife, Alicia, are well respected throughout town. That is, until one of the many reporters investigating the bizarre bird phenomenon catches Nate embracing a wayward student, Lucia Hamm, in front of a sleazy motel. Lucia soon buoys the scandal by claiming that she and Nate are engaged in an affair, throwing the town into an uproar...and leaving Alicia to wonder if her husband has a second life. And when Lucia suddenly disappears, the police only have one suspect: Nate. Nate's coworker and sole supporter, Bridget Harris, Lucia's creative writing teacher, is determined to prove his innocence. She has Lucia's class journal, and while some of the entries appear particularly damning to Nate's case, others just don't add up. Bridget knows the key to Nate's exoneration and the truth of Lucia's disappearance lie within the walls of the school and in the pages of that journal. 20180223. City and town life Fiction. Teenage girls Fiction. Missing persons Investigation Fiction. Psychological fiction. Mystery fiction.