LOST IN THE VALLEY OF DEATH

Harley Rustad's LOST IN THE VALLEY OF DEATH, the story of Justin Alexander Shetler, a charismatic American who disappeared while on a spiritual pilgrimage in India in 2016, one of over a dozen westerners who have met a similar fate in the remote and storied Parvati Valley, pitched as a mystery in the vein of INTO THE WILD that examines the centuries-old lure of India for seekers and the risky paths many have taken in search of enlightenment, to Jennifer Barth at Harper.