Unabridged cds (9:24)
2008
311 pgs.
Adult CRF/Mystery
Finished 11/30/2014
Goodreads rating: 3.43
My rating: 3.5 Liked it a lot
Contemporary Florida
1st sentence/s: "Until the drowned girl came to Laurel's bedroom, ghosts had never walked in Victoriana. The houses were only twenty years old with no accumulated history to put creaks in the hardwood floors or rattle at the pipes."
My comments: I really love Joshilyn Jackson's writing. Her descriptions are .... elegant.
The way she writes her characters make it seem as if you know them, or someone like them. Her plots are always interesting, woven in fascinating ways. This one had an element of "ghosts" that were not real, just in the protagonist's head, much like they could be in anyone's head, whether we'd like to admit it or not. But the icing on the cake? Jackson, herself, was the reader of this audio book. And she was just plain terrific. She has become one of my very favorite writers.
The way she writes her characters make it seem as if you know them, or someone like them. Her plots are always interesting, woven in fascinating ways. This one had an element of "ghosts" that were not real, just in the protagonist's head, much like they could be in anyone's head, whether we'd like to admit it or not. But the icing on the cake? Jackson, herself, was the reader of this audio book. And she was just plain terrific. She has become one of my very favorite writers.
Goodreads book summary:
Her sister Thalia, an impoverished "Actress" with a capital A, is her opposite, and prides herself in exposing the lurid truth lurking behind life's everyday niceties. And while Laurel's life was neatly on track, a passionate marriage, a treasured daughter, and a lovely home in lovely suburban Victorianna, everything she holds dear is thrown into question the night she is visited by an apparition in her bedroom. The ghost appears to be her 14-year-old neighbor Molly Dufresne, and when Laurel follows this ghost , she finds the real Molly floating lifeless in her swimming pool. While the community writes the tragedy off as a suicide, Laurel can't. Reluctantly enlisting Thalia's aid, Laurel sets out on a life-altering investigation that triggers startling revelations about her own guarded past, the truth about her marriage, and the girl who stopped swimming.
Her sister Thalia, an impoverished "Actress" with a capital A, is her opposite, and prides herself in exposing the lurid truth lurking behind life's everyday niceties. And while Laurel's life was neatly on track, a passionate marriage, a treasured daughter, and a lovely home in lovely suburban Victorianna, everything she holds dear is thrown into question the night she is visited by an apparition in her bedroom. The ghost appears to be her 14-year-old neighbor Molly Dufresne, and when Laurel follows this ghost , she finds the real Molly floating lifeless in her swimming pool. While the community writes the tragedy off as a suicide, Laurel can't. Reluctantly enlisting Thalia's aid, Laurel sets out on a life-altering investigation that triggers startling revelations about her own guarded past, the truth about her marriage, and the girl who stopped swimming.
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