Sentenced to death for crimes he didn't commit, ex-cop Tom O'Brien is now a hunted fugitive. After fifteen years in prison, he's determined to prove his innocence--but first he must convince his daughter, whose testimony helped put him behind bars, that he has damning evidence of a plot to frame him
Playing dead: a novel of suspense
β Scribed by Julia Heaberlin
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group;Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 193 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
"A compelling family mystery that kept me turning the pages. Highly recommended."--Margaret Maron,New York Times bestselling author of Three Day Town
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"Dear Tommie: Have you ever wondered about who you are?"
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The letter that turns Tommie McCloud's world upside down arrives from a stranger only days after her father's death. The woman who wrote it claims that Tommie is her daughter--and that she was kidnapped as a baby thirty-one years ago.
Tommie wants to believe it's all a hoax, but suddenly a girl who grew up on a Texas ranch finds herself linked to a horrific past: the slaughter of a family in Chicago, the murder of an Oklahoma beauty queen, and the kidnapping of a little girl named Adriana. Tommie races along a twisting, nightmarish path while an unseen stalker is determined to keep old secrets locked inside the dementia-battered brain of the woman who Tommie always thought was her...
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