Pyres

In Pyres, 15-year-old Lucia Moberg lifts a CD out of a store in a shopping mall - and when she and her dad get into their car, there is a tap at the window. The next second her father's brains are on the dashboard.So begins the story of the ruin of her mother, whose home life is shrouded in darkness; a mysterious and menacing motorcycle gang; the real-to-life female cop out to crack the case, who is facing her own family's collapse; and the struggle for Lucia to piece together some semblance of a normal teenage life.The writing is hard and crisp, and wholly multi-dimensional, while the story moves along at a nail-biting pace with twists, turns, literary allusions, and the engaging plight of several fascinating, memorable, and fully rounded characters.