SAFE KEEPING is by one of my new go to authors, Barbara
Taylor Sissel.
This is the story of the Lebay family. Tucker and Lissa are
brother and
sister. Their parents are Roy and Emily. Tucker has been
in trouble with
the police before. Now it seems he is in trouble again.
The police have
found a dead woman on the same stretch of the highway where
they found
one a year before. A year ago, Tucker was questioned as a
person of
interest in the police departments investigation as he was
the last person to
see the woman alive.
Tucker's Dad Roy was in Vietnam and came back after the war
suffering
from post traumatic stress disorder and has bouts of being
back in the
jungle. One time, Emily had to go out and left Tucker alone
with his Dad.
When she came home, she found four year old Tucker locked
in a closet
and Roy having a PTSD episode. Later on, it was learned
that Roy had put
a Gun to Tucker's head that day. Tucker has never been the
same since it
happened. He is always getting in trouble and hanging out
with the wrong
people. He seems to find girls in a bad way and tries to
save them. That's
where his troubles start and it goes downhill from there.
Lissa and her husband Evan have been worrying about Tucker
but they are
also concerned with Lissa. She passed out and has been
having terrible
headaches. Evan has been trying to get her to see a doctor
to find out
what is wrong with her and she keeps putting it off. She
can't deal with
herself right now. She has to help clear Tucker's name.
Tucker doesn't
seem to think its a big deal and does nothing to help
himself. It drives Lissa
crazy.
I really loved SAFE KEEPING and read it rather quickly.
Barbara pulls you right in
from the first page and never lets you go. The way she ends
the book will
blow you away. I couldn't stop flipping the pages and
stayed up way too
late for two nights because I had to know how SAFE KEEPING
was going to
end. What this family goes through will be pulling at your
heart strings in
no time.
My son is a murderer. So begins this chilling and
emotionally charged mystery from highly acclaimed author
Barbara Taylor Sissel.
Emily Lebay had always thought of her family as ordinary.
Sure, they've endured their share of problems, even a time
of great trouble—what family hasn't? But when a woman's body
turns up in the dense woods near their home, and Emily's
grown son, Tucker, is accused of murder, Emily is forced to
confront the unfathomable, and everything she believed about
her life is called into question.
This isn't the first time Tucker has been targeted by the
police; a year ago he was a person of interest when another
woman was found dead in the same stretch of woods. Still,
neither Emily nor her daughter, Lissa, can reconcile their
Tucker with these brutal crimes. Terrified, convinced
there's been a tragic mistake, Emily and Lissa set out to
learn the truth about Tucker, once and for all. And while
his life hangs in the balance, what they discover proves far
more shocking than their darkest fears….
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