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Category:
Action/Thriller
Publisher: Oceanview
ISBN-10: 1608090747
Type: Fiction
Pages: 272
Copyright: 2013
ISBN-13: 9781608090747
Elle Harrison is suspected of killing her soon-to-be ex-husband. The police suspect her. In trying to clear herself, she discovers his shocking secret life. Trying to recover from his loss, she sees and hears him everywhere, especially when the real killer tries to silence her.
Excerpt
Sometime before Charlie moved out, I began reading the obituaries. It became a daily routine, like morning coffee. I didn't just scan the listings; I read them closely, noting the dates of death, ages of the deceased, names of survivors. If there were photos, I studied faces for clues about mortality even though they were often grinning and much younger than at death. Sometimes there were flags at the top of notices, signifying military service. Salvador Petrini had a flag. Aged sixty-four. Owner of Petrini's Market. Beloved husband and father and stepfather and brother and uncle. Viewing and Life Celebration at St. Patrick's Church, Malvern.
Some notices were skeletal, giving no details of the lost life. Sonia Woods went to be with the Lord on August 17. Viewing Friday, from nine to eleven, First Baptist Church. Service to follow. These left me disturbed, sad for the deceased. Was there, in the end, really nothing to be said about them? Were their lives just a finite number of breaths, now stopped?
For weeks, I followed the flow of local deaths and funerals. The words and patterns of language had a gentle, rolling rhythm comforting like prayers, like nursery rhymes. And between listings, stark and straight lines divided one death from another, putting lives neatly into boxes, separating body from body, sould form soul. Making death quantifiable and normal, a daily occurrence neatly announced on paper in black and white, on pages dense with ink, speckled with gray smiling photos. Smiles announcing that death wasn't really so bad.
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