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Ballantine
August 2015
On Sale: August 11, 2015
Featuring: Tessa Cartwright
368 pages
ISBN: 0804177996
EAN: 9780804177993
Kindle: B00P5557PI
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Suspense
For fans of Laura Lippman and Gillian Flynn comes an
electrifying novel of stunning psychological suspense.
I am the star of screaming headlines and campfire
ghost stories.
I am one of the four Black-Eyed Susans.
The lucky one. As a sixteen-year-old, Tessa Cartwright was found in a
Texas
field, barely alive amid a scattering of bones, with only
fragments of memory as to how she got there. Ever since,
the
press has pursued her as the lone surviving “Black-Eyed
Susan,” the nickname given to the murder victims because
of
the yellow carpet of wildflowers that flourished above
their
shared grave. Tessa’s testimony about those tragic hours
put
a man on death row. Now, almost two decades later, Tessa is an artist and
single
mother. In the desolate cold of February, she is shocked
to
discover a freshly planted patch of black-eyed susans—a
summertime bloom—just outside her bedroom window.
Terrified
at the implications—that she sent the wrong man to prison
and the real killer remains at large—Tessa turns to the
lawyers working to exonerate the man awaiting execution.
But
the flowers alone are not proof enough, and the forensic
investigation of the still-unidentified bones is
progressing
too slowly. An innocent life hangs in the balance. The
legal
team appeals to Tessa to undergo hypnosis to retrieve
lost
memories—and to share the drawings she produced as part
of
an experimental therapy shortly after her rescue. What they don’t know is that Tessa and the scared,
fragile
girl she was have built a fortress of secrets. As the
clock
ticks toward the execution, Tessa fears for her sanity,
but
even more for the safety of her teenaged daughter. Is a
serial killer still roaming free, taunting Tessa with a
trail of clues? She has no choice but to confront old
ghosts
and lingering nightmares to finally discover what really
happened that night. Shocking, intense, and utterly original, Black-Eyed
Susans
is a dazzling psychological thriller, seamlessly weaving
past and present in a searing tale of a young woman whose
harrowing memories remain in a field of flowers—as a
killer
makes a chilling return to his garden.
Comments
1 comment posted.
Re: Black-Eyed Susans
The weather here is perfect to curl up with a book like this!! Overcast with thundershowers predicted - the perfect setting for reading a real thriller!! How I wish the excerpt had kept on going, but for now, I have to put this book on my TBR list, and get to it real soon!! I can understand why it's being named the read of the Summer!! Congratulations on your book, and I know that this will be one book that I'll be savoring, and probably passing around to a couple of people I know!!
(Peggy Roberson 12:21pm August 10, 2015)
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