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“Absolutely beautiful book. I felt all of the emotions and could not stop listening. Pulled at my heart strings all the way through. Perfect murder mystery but also complex in the way it touches on grief, mental illness, PTSD, and addiction. I absolutely love the strength and resilience of the MMC.”
— Christi • Georgia Blossom Books
Summary
College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same.
Carl is a dying Vietnam veteranโand a convicted murderer. With only a few months to live, he has been medically paroled to a nursing home after spending thirty years in prison for the crimes of rape and murder.
As Joe writes about Carl's life, especially Carl's valor in Vietnam, he cannot reconcile the heroism of the soldier with the despicable acts of the convict. Aided by his skeptical neighbor, Lila, Joe throws himself into uncovering the truth. Thread by thread, he begins to unravel the tapestry of Carl's conviction. But as he and Lila dig deeper into the circumstances of the crime, the stakes grow higher. Will Joe discover the truth before it's too late to escape the fallout?
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Audiobook details
Author:
Allen Eskens
Narrator:
Zach Villa
ISBN:
9781494583880
Length:
8 hours 23 minutes
Language:
English
Publisher:
Tantor Media, Inc
Publication date:
June 9, 2015
Edition:
Unabridged
Libro.fm rank:
#2,118 Overall
Genre rank:
#305 in Mystery & Thriller