But Elora has disappeared, and no one has seen her for almost three months. Seventeen-year-old Greycie lives in Little Rock, but she spends summers in La Cachette with her grandmother and her best friend, Elora. La Cachette is so deep in the Louisiana bayou that it can only be reached by boat, but that doesn't stop streams of tourists coming to town for its psychic services: seances, palm readings, past-life regressions, and psychic love readings. The story includes strong language ('f-k,' 's-t,' 'goddamn,' 'Jesus'), and a one major teen character regularly drinks and smokes.ĭARK AND SHALLOW LIES is set in a tiny town (population 106) that calls itself the Psychic Capital of the World. There's a brief sexual encounter between two teens (unbuttoning of shorts, hand under bra, fumbling with buttons on jeans) that doesn't include intercourse. A fistfight is graphically described two children are murdered a house is set on fire, killing a child and a girl is beaten so badly that her body is unrecognizable. Violence is ever present throughout the story. Since La Cachette has deemed itself the Psychic Capital of the World, Greycie finds it inconceivable that no one knows what's happened to Elora. Seventeen-year-old Greycie has returned to the tiny town of La Cachette to spend the summer with her grandmother and, most important, to discover what's happened to her best friend, Elora, who disappeared three months ago. Parents need to know that Ginny Myers Sain's Dark and Shallow Lies is set deep in the Louisiana bayou and unfolds over a few short weeks awash in long-buried secrets and murder.

Dark and shallow lies book review