The Fallen
The first gripping mystery by the bestselling author of The Perfect Couple and Am I Guilty? (The Cora Baxter Mysteries)
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Publisher Description
Could the truth be hiding in plain sight?
The first 'sharp and totally gripping' book in the much-loved Cora Baxter Mysteries series, from the acclaimed broadcaster, USA Today bestseller and bestselling author of The Perfect Couple and Am I Guilty?
Having been unceremoniously dumped over the phone by her boyfriend, investigative journalist and news correspondent Cora Baxter has had the weekend from hell.
And when she arrives at the TV studios on Monday morning to find her much-hated boss, Jeanette, on the rampage after a segment has had to be cancelled moments before they are due on air, she fears her week is heading in the same direction.
As the post-programme debrief draws ever closer, tensions rise. But when Jeanette doesn't appear, she is found dead on the pavement outside and the studio suddenly find themselves embroiled in a murder investigation.
But with a long list of people who despise her, the list of suspects isn't exactly short and, as the enquiry unfolds, the signs point frighteningly close to home and soon everyone is under the spotlight . . .
Previously published as The Dead Dog Day.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Luke Carver thinks that keeping a journal "sounds like a chick thing." Nonetheless, his English teacher wants him to write a little each day in preparation for the all- important college essay he will have to compose next year. Once he gets going, the 17-year-old doesn't mind writing, and he's pretty good at it, too; a poem he wrote several years ago, "The Falcon," was published in a magazine. His entries initiate a compelling journey of self-discovery. Luke's descriptions of his recent "screw-ups"--blowing a couple of wrestling meets, wrecking the car several times and leaving the scene of an accident--seem to flow fast and furiously from his pen, but when his thoughts turn to a bigger crisis, losing his left eye, he stops short. Crossed-out, half-finished sentences provide a less-than- subtle trail of clues to the source of Luke's problems, including the guilt he feels for not living up to his parents' expectations. While Koller's (A Place to Call Home) foreshadowing feels clumsy and contrived, readers will feel the weight of the painful secret Luke has carried for four years, and they can't fail to miss his resemblance to the bird in his poem, who "sits/ with his head sagging down/ and his eyes staring up/ a chain around his leg." Ages 12-up.
