On a drizzly London evening, an American journalist enters a trendy pub to meet Ben McKinnon, a successful but publicity-shy author. Ana Doherty’s assignment is to interview him and dig below the reclusive demeanor he presents. At the end of their first meeting, a random act of violence and a
The Wrong Good Deed
โ Scribed by Caroline B. Cooney
- Book ID
- 111442335
- Publisher
- Sourcebooks
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781728269887
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
She thought she had left that life behind forever. She was wrong.
1964: Christaphine is twenty years old, newly married, and determined to make a home and a life for her and her husband, Tommy. But when Christaphine discovers Tommy and his friends on the verge of committing a horrible crime, she does what she has to do to stop them. Afterwards, she knows she can't ever go home again--so she disappears.
50 years later: When Clemmie's neighbor, Muffin, drags her from Sunday morning service at Trinity Hill Church, convinced that the man she's just spotted across the aisle is a dangerous figure from her past, at first Clemmie thinks she's being dramatic. But as Muffin reveals to Clemmie what happened in the middle of a field in South Carolina five decades ago, Clemmie realizes her friend has been keeping dark secrets--just as Clemmie herself has. And the secrets that belong to both women are not the kind that can be revealed without dire consequences...
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