Three women. A small isolated town. A decades old mystery. 1933. Cornelia Stover is not the
kind of woman the menfolk of Boldville New Mexico expect her to be. A widow she ought to be
taking care of her house and her daughter. Instead she's meddling with things that should not
concern her. 1970. Joanna Riley a former cop packs up her car in the middle of the night and
drives west fleeing an abusive marriage and a life she can no longer bear. Eventually her car
runs out of gas and she finds herself in Boldville a sleepy desert town in the foothills of
the Gila Mountains. Meanwhile a young hippie Glitter is struggling to realise her plan for a
commune. She thought a life of free love away from the perils of consumerism would bring her
happiness. But things haven't quite turned out the way she had expected. Soon Joanna and
Glitter encounter a shocking modern-day crime and find themselves caught up in a decades-old
mystery - the unexplained disappearance of Glitter's grandmother Cornelia . . . A captivating
atmospheric new novel from the lauded author of The Long Long Afternoon This Wild Wild
Country simmers with secrets lies and terrible betrayal unravelling the lives of three women
at the mercy of their times.
