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We Begin at the End
Gold Dagger · 2021 · Winner
Award History
| Award | Year | Status | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold Dagger Award | 2021 | Winner | “Chris Whitaker's coastal California novel won for its emotional devastation, its luminous prose, and the extraordinary characterization of thirteen-year-old Duchess, one of the year's great fictional creations.” |
About This Book
After thirty years in prison for an accidental killing, Vincent King returns to the California coastal town of Cape Haven—and when a girl is murdered, it falls to town marshal Walk and thirteen-year-old Duchess to untangle the town's buried secrets.
About the Author
Chris Whitaker is a British crime fiction author whose novel We Begin at the End (2021) won the CWA Gold Dagger and became an international bestseller. The novel is set in a small California coastal town and follows the intertwined lives of a local marshal, a thirteen-year-old girl, and the convicted killer released after thirty years who threatens to upend everything. Born in London, Whitaker worked in finance before turning to writing. Read more →
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