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Carregando... The Bulletde Mary Louise Kelly
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Excellent story ( ) When Caroline talked to her Dr. about the wrist pain she was having, she heard what many of us have, "probably carpal tunnel". But it wasn't. After an MRI it was clear there was something in the base of her head. It turned out to be a bullet (a bullet?!), and that's not the only revelation that will be coming. Discovery of the bullet will lead to a decades old unsolved murder case being reopened, a breach with her brothers and loving parents, a romance after years alone, and a sojurn to Paris (she is a linguist). While the plot may sound unlikely the writing is solid and I was always involved in the story, sometimes on the edge of my seat. Caroline is a professor who has led a fairly charmed life up until now. She is seeing a doctor for some wrist pain and gets an xray, no big deal, right? Until the xray tech asks how in the world she was shot, how long she has been living with that bullet in her neck! What?! Caroline of course asks her parents who are then obliged to tell her they adopted her when she was a small girl. She is thrown by this and goes on a quest to find out more of her story. Oh, but finding out more brings others from her past that she isn't ready to welcome to her present. This is a good book! Caroline is likable and mostly believable as she going through these terrible, life-altering events. And further in the book it's fun to go along with her as she makes decisions and say, "No what are you doing! Wait!" and then, "Oh, okay, that's not so bad" as she goes further along. It doesn't ALL have to be believable: this IS a novel, after all, not an encyclopedia. 4 stars. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
"From NPR correspondent Mary Louise Kelly comes a heart-pounding story about fear, family secrets, and one woman's hunt for answers about the murder of her parents. Caroline Cashion, a professor of French literature at Georgetown University, is stunned when an MRI reveals that she has a bullet lodged near the base of her skull. It makes no sense: she has never been shot. She has no entry wound. No scar. When she confronts her parents, they initially profess bewilderment. Then, over the course of one awful evening, she learns the truth: she was adopted when she was three years old, after her real parents were murdered in cold blood. Caroline had been there the night of the attack, and she'd been hit by a single gunshot to the neck. Buried too deep among vital nerves and blood vessels, the surgeons had left it, and stitched up the traumatized little girl with the bullet still inside. That was thirty-four years ago. Now, Caroline returns to her hometown to learn whatever she can about who her parents were and why they died. Along the way she meets a cop who worked the case, who reveals that even after all these years, the police do not have enough evidence to nail their suspect. The killer is still at large. Caroline is horrified--and in danger. Because the bullet in Caroline's neck could identify the murderer...and he'll do anything to keep it out of the police's hands. Now Caroline will have to decide: run for her life, or stay and fight?"-- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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