Twelve-year-old Louise "Loo" Hawley and her loving yet tough father, Samuel, live a peripatetic existence, until Samuel decides to settle down in his late wife's hometown of Olympus, MA. He wants to give Loo a more traditional life, although it will still be one filled with guns, secrecy, and bathroom shrines to Loo's mother, Lily. Loo knows her father has 12 bullet wounds but not how he came to have them-something the listener finds out in intermittent chapters that recount each fascinating, fraught story. As Loo becomes a teenager and experiences dangerous circumstances of her own, her father grows increasingly tense. In addition, Loo begins to investigate the truth about her mother's tragic death. All this leads to a convergence between Samuel's criminal past and his and Loo's present. Elizabeth Wiley's nuanced narration perfectly suits the complicated, suspenseful story, allowing inflection to indicate the speaker. -VERDICT This excellent production, with superb pacing and narration, is a must-have for most library collections. ["There is enough action and suspense to satisfy thriller fans, but the core of the story is the character development and exploration of relationships common to literary fiction": LJ 1/17 review of the Dial hc.]-B. Allison Gray, Goleta Lib., CA © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.