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When Lucy Rosen and her son Keith move to Verity, Florida, Keith runs away with the baby of a murdered woman, and Lucy and Officer Julian Cash chase after him. By the author of Illumination Night. Reprint. NYT. K.
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Characters/People edit
- Lucy Rosen: Protagonist and recent divorcee
- Keith Rosen: Lucy's 12-year-old son
- Julian Cash: Verity K9 policeman and dog trainer
- Bethany Lee: A young woman who runs with her daughter Rachael when she fears she will lose custody to her ex-husband.
- Paul Salley: Reporter for the Verity Sun Herald and son of the owner.
- Walt Hannen: Verity's Chief of Police
- Janey Bass: Owner of the donut shop, Hole-in-One and Julian Cash's high school sweetheart
- Kitty Bass: Secretary for the Verity Sun Herald and gossip.
- Dee: Beautician at the Cut 'n' Curl
- Bobby Cash: Deceased cousin of Julian.
- Shannon Bass: Teenage daughter of Janey Bass
- Lillian Giles: Julian Cash's foster mother
- Evan: Lucy's ex-husband who is seeking custody of Keith
- Andrea Friedman: Lucy's cousin
- Uncle Jack and Aunt Naomi: Andrea's parents
- Randy: A former classmate that Lucy meets at a class reunion. He is recently divorced and asks Lucy for a date.
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“The air all around the town limits is so thick that sometimes a soul cannot rise and instead attaches itself to a stranger, landing right between the shoulder blades with a thud that carries no more weight than a hummingbird.”
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“Instead of tears, little rocks feel from his eyes, and they kept on falling until there was a pile of stones at his feet.”
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His eyes would be as blue as always, so blue it could make you forget you weren’t looking at the sky.
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But doing the right thing doesn’t mean you can sleep at night. It doesn’t mean you won’t regret it for the rest of your life.
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sometimes your life leads you to places where no one can follow, except, if you’re lucky, a dog who for however brief a time might offer you complete devotion, no matter who you are.
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sometimes a soul cannot rise and instead attaches itself to a stranger, landing right between the shoulder blades with a thud that carries no more weight than a hummingbird.
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Setting & Locations edit
- Verity, Florida: "The most humid spot in Eastern Florida...so quiet you can her the strangler figs dropping their fruit on the hoods of parked cars."
- Great Neck: Lucy's home when married to Evan
First Sentence edit
THE last major crime in the town of Verity was in 1958, when one of the Platts shot his brother in an argument over a Chevy Nomad they had bought together on time.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Alice Hoffman (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1992
ISBN: 0-399-13720-3
Page Count: 255
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1992
ISBN: 0-399-13720-3
Page Count: 255
Awards edit
- Dashiell Hammett Award (1992: Crime, Winner)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PS3558.03447T87 1992
- Dewey: 813.54
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