'We Begin at the End' by Chris Whitaker

While walking the Chester Valley Trail (3 miles) we will discuss We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker (fiction, 384 pages, 11 hrs audio).

Park at the Penn Medicine Valley Forge parking lot, 1001 Chesterbrook Blvd, Berwyn, PA. Meet at the trailhead. In the event of rain, we will meet at the trailhead, and then decide on moving indoors.

"Right. Wrong. Life is lived somewhere in between."

Thirty years ago, Vincent King became a killer.

Now, he’s been released from prison and is back in his hometown of Cape Haven, California. Not everyone is pleased to see him. Like Star Radley, his ex-girlfriend, and sister of the girl he killed.

Duchess Radley, Star’s thirteen-year-old daughter, is part-carer, part-protector to her younger brother, Robin – and to her deeply troubled mother. But in trying to protect Star, Duchess inadvertently sets off a chain of events that will have tragic consequences not only for her family, but also the whole town.

We Begin at the End is an extraordinary novel about two kinds of families—the ones we are born into and the ones we create.

Winner of the Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger award and the Australian Crime Writers Association's Best International Crime Fiction award.