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Evening Street: A Bell Elkins Novella (Bell Elkins Novels) Kindle Edition

by Julia Keller (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 126 ratings
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By day, she's a tough-minded prosecutor in Raythune County, West Virginia, a region scarred by poverty and prescription drug abuse. By night, Bell Elkins takes on a softer role. She volunteers at an auxiliary intensive care unit where nurses deal with the youngest and most vulnerable victims of drug abuse: the children born to mothers addicted to painkillers.

The place is known as Evening Street, and it is here Bell comes whenever she can spare the time. She rocks ailing infants to sleep, and she provides what medical science-for all of its marvels-cannot: A simple human touch.

One terrifying night, the distraught father of an Evening Street baby breaks into the facility. Gun in hand, he holds the staff hostage and demands a reckoning for a family grudge--with helpless infants only inches away.

And so begins a standoff at Evening Street. Bell Elkins is swept up into the crisis, as the drama escalates toward a lethal flashpoint. At the center of it all is a baby, only hours old, but already ancient in his knowledge of pain.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0111HW0E4
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Minotaur Books (December 8, 2015)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 8, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 861 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 81 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 126 ratings

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Julia Keller, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and former cultural critic at the Chicago Tribune, is the author of many books for adults and young readers, including A Killing in the Hills, the first book in the Bell Elkins series and winner of the Barry Award for Best First Novel (2013); Back Home; and The Dark Intercept. Keller has a Ph.D. in English literature from Ohio State and was awarded Harvard University’s Nieman Fellowship. She was born in West Virginia and lives in Ohio.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Evening Street... A Bell Elkins novella
Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2021
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Another novella that provides further insight into the nuances of the prosecuting attorney, Bell Elkins. There are so many facets to this complex and endearing character. Julia Keller’s literary prose has enlightened me into why people are drawn to, or must get away from, this beautiful but poverty-stricken area in the hills of West Virginia, that is overwrought with an opioid crisis. I know an author is top-notch when I find my emotions rattled to the core. If I find myself stopping in the middle of a chapter to further research a topic or term that an author is referencing, it makes the book that much more enriching.
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lillirose51
4.0 out of 5 stars A new side of Bell Elkins
Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2016
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This short piece involves some of the characters (Bell Elkins in particular) from Julia Keller's series. It gives new insight into a side of Bell Elkins that isn't very prominent in the main novels where the focus is on solving crimes. It's a reminder in the context of the summer of 2016, that good, well-intentioned people can do terrible things when driven by fear.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Shorter than expected
Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2016
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Evening Street shows a caring side of Bell Elkins rather than her investigative fierceness. I thought the story was fine, although it couldn’t really have the twists of a long piece of fiction; and I thought it ended kind of limply. It seemed too short because the Amazon site shows it as a novella that is 76 pages long; yet the last one-third of those pages are not Evening Street, but the start of a new novel, Sorrow Road. I’ll buy Sorrow Road to read the whole things so I didn’t intend to buy it now.
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Big yellow dog mom
5.0 out of 5 stars Novella, not full length novel, totally worth the read esp before Bone on Bone.
Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2018
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These are a great read-- I just love these books. Bell Elkins is a complex character living and working in an area that knows poverty, drug and alcohol addiction, and family violence. The books are well written and the author respects the hill folk and their struggles. She's very careful to not demean the people she writes about over and over.

If you haven't read any of the previous books, you really should read the entire series in order, starting with A Killing in the Fields. It's a fabulous series.

In fact, I forgot I had one more book to go in the series so I'm going to stop right here and order it!
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Ann J. Holtwick
4.0 out of 5 stars I like Julia Keller's Bell Elkins books
Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2016
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I like Julia Keller's Bell Elkins books. She works in the West Virginia atmosphere and current issues facing WVa into the books very effectively.
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Heidi G.
5.0 out of 5 stars Love this series!
Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2016
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I really enjoyed this short novella by Julia Keller. Evening Street is where the babies go whose mothers are addicted to prescription drugs. It is a heart tugging book. A must read to any fan of Bell Elkins.

Plus there is a tidbit of her new book coming out in August. I am already excited to read the next full length installment of this series.
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Sharon Morehouse.
5.0 out of 5 stars Another side of Belle.
Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2020
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Sad story about a big, real life problem. Belle is the hero of her own story. A good beginning of a longer story.
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Jayhwk2IL
4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyed
Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2016
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As with the other Keller books/stories the story runs along well, but does not sacrifice the characters as they are well described.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Gritty and moving!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 26, 2017
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Julia Keller can do no wrong in my eyes. I love everything about Bell Elkins and the way of life in Acker’s Gap. This should be a must read series, for fans of quality small town law and order.

Evening Street is a short novella, set in between Last Ragged Breath and Sorrow Road. Bell works hard as an attorney during the day. Every so often, she gives a little of her time to charity. She volunteers at Evening Street, a free medical facility dedicated to supporting babies born to addicts. Drug addiction is a major problem in the area. One of the babies is Abraham, a two day old infant. Abraham has been born to poverty and to addiction. He is a very sick baby. Abraham’s father shows up late, whilst Bell is volunteering. It is a desperate story. A father who wants to be with his son. A very vulnerable baby, who will probably not survive. A safeguarding issue. A desperate time.

Julia Keller manages to pack so much into this short novella. We see the very real consequences of the drugs situation in Acker’s Gap. Gritty and moving!
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PoCoKat
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Novella
Reviewed in Canada on December 17, 2015
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Evening Street is a novella in the Bell Elkins series by author Julia Keller. I am a huge fan of this series set in West Virginia.

Bell Elkins is a prosecutor in Acker's Gap, West Virginia. The mountains of West Virginia where Bell lives, are filled with broken, ragged people. Many of the citizen there, who are caught up in a cycle of despair and hurt, are addicted to prescription drugs. Sadly many babies of addicts are born addicted and require very special care. Bell has been volunteering with these babies and is very affected by it.

One newborn, Abraham, becomes the center of a drama that unfolds one night at the auxiliary intensive care unit where the babies are cared for. Bell and the nurses there deal with a distraught father who is drunk and torn up about the situation his baby is in. It is a tense drama highlighting the emotions those involve face. Shots are fired and there is a stand-off...

Author Julia Keller does a fabulous job bringing the issues of these mountain people to light. Evening Street is a great novella.

Now I need to wait for August 2016 for Sorrow Road. Looking forward to it. There is a sample of Sorrow Road included with Evening Street.
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Gil Rand
5.0 out of 5 stars Good read
Reviewed in Canada on November 29, 2022
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A good little read.
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