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Hemlock Grove

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Hemlock Grove

The body of a young girl is found mangled and murdered in the woods of Hemlock Grove, Pennsylvania, in the shadow of the abandoned Godfrey Steel mill. A manhunt ensues --- though the authorities aren’t sure if it’s a man they should be looking for. 


Some suspect an escapee from the White Tower, a foreboding biotech facility owned by the Godfrey family --- their personal fortune and the local economy having moved on from Pittsburgh steel --- where, if rumors are true, biological experiments of the most unethical kind take place. Others turn to Peter Rumancek, a Gypsy trailer-trash kid who has told impressionable high school classmates that he’s a werewolf. Or perhaps it’s Roman, the son of the late JR Godfrey, who rules the adolescent social scene with the casual arrogance of a cold-blooded aristocrat, his superior status unquestioned despite his decidedly freakish sister, Shelley, whose monstrous medical conditions belie a sweet intelligence, and his otherworldly control freak of a mother, Olivia.
 
At once a riveting mystery and a fascinating revelation of the grotesque and the darkness in us all, HEMLOCK GROVE has the architecture and energy to become a classic in its own right --- and Brian McGreevy the talent and ambition to enthrall us for years to come.

Hemlock Grove
by Brian McGreevy