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Katharine Murray's elegant Atlanta home has been viciously vandalized! She's prepared to devote all her time to getting it back in tip-top shape--until she meets Bara Weidenauer. Once a picture-perfect socialite, Bara has fallen on some hard times. Her husband, Foley, has hightailed it out of their marriage, and she's convinced he'll try to take her for every penny she's got. While scouring her house for anything of value to hide from her greedy ex, Bara finds a box of military medals that show more once belonged to her father, a beloved war hero. Eager to know the story behind these precious trinkets, she enlists Katharine's help. But as Katharine digs deeper into Weidenauer family history, she discovers that everything Bara believed about her father may have been a lie. And when Foley is found shot to death, Bara's world turns to complete chaos. It's up to Katharine to expose this family's secrets from the past and the present . . . or the future will be very grim indeed. show lessTags
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This is the first book I've read in the Family Tree series because I happened to see it at the bookstore the day I was there. I enjoyed the book once I got into it but the real action started too late in the book. About 100 pages in I was starting to wonder why I was still reading it and had vowed never to travel south of the Mason Dixon Line. The book seemed to be all about Bara and her relationship with Jack Daniels. But I liked Katharine, the amateur detective/genealogist character, enough to go back and read the first two books in the series if I come across them.
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Patricia Sprinkle was born in West Virginia, but grew up in North Carolina and Florida. After graduating from Vasser College where she studied creative writing, Sprinkle spent a year writing in the Scottish Highlands. Sprinkle has written non-fiction articles for religious magazines such as Guideposts and has also written educational materials on show more hunger. Sprinkle enjoys reading mysteries, and since 1988, Sprinkle has written twenty mystery novels. Sprinkle and her husband live in Georgia. They have two grown children. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Series
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Daughter of Deceit
- Original publication date
- 2008
- People/Characters
- Katharine Murray; Tom Murray; Posey Buiton; Hollis Buiton; Bara Holcomb Weidenauer; Foley Weidenauer (show all 17); Carlene Morris; Payne Branwell Anderson; Ann Rose Anderson; Winston Holcomb; Nettie Payne Holcomb; Scotty Payne; Eloise Payne; Murdoch Payne; Rita Louise Phipps; Kenny Todd; Maria Ortiz
- Important places
- Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- First words
- Monday
Bara Holcomb Weidenauer was on a mission to save her life.
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- Members
- 80
- Popularity
- 398,265
- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (3.46)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 5
- ASINs
- 4
