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Loading... Playing Dead: A Novel (original 2012; edition 2012)by Julia Heaberlin
Work InformationPlaying Dead by Julia Heaberlin (2012)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Read it in one day on a flight from Key West to Chicago. Could not put it down. Great multi-layered mystery with a little bit of everything. Mystery, danger, action, and veiled sexual tension. Loved it! ( ) I so enjoyed Black-Eyed Susans, by Julia Heaberlin that I picked up her debut novel, Playing Dead¸ and finished it at 1:00 a.m. this morning! It’s a great mystery, with characters so real, you’d think they lived in your neighborhood (if y’all are from Texas)! Tommie McLoud has just moved back home to Ponder, Texas, population 1,101, to handle her recently deceased father’s business affairs and help her sister, Sadie, with their mom, who is suffering from dementia. Unexpectedly, Tommie receives a letter from an unknown woman in Chicago who claims to be Tommie’s birth mother and states that Tommie was kidnapped as a baby 30 years before. What follows is a suspenseful mystery as Tommie follows clue after clue that somehow links her life with the slaughter of a family in Chicago, the murder of a beauty queen in Oklahoma and a mafia don named Anthony Marchetti. Tommie is a great narrator, a former rodeo queen who pokes fun at southern quirkiness, yet still extols the vast beauty of the land and skies of her native state. The reader will get caught up in the suspense of the story as Tommie comes to understand that everything she thought she knew about her childhood is suspect. With the help of a former lover, a hippy sister, a gruff newsman and a suspicious writer, Tommie unravels her past and uncovers unexpected secrets and lies about the family she thought she knew. This one kept me turning the pages, and had some fantastic twists I didn’t see coming. Can’t wait to see what Ms. Heaberlin comes up with next! no reviews | add a review
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HTML: â??A compelling family mystery that kept me turning the pages. Highly recommended.â?ťâ??Margaret Maron, New York Times bestselling author of Three Day Town No library descriptions found. |
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