Lynda Douglas
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Deadfall
Type of edition: Trade paperback
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Few people can claim to have clear memories of their lives before their fifth birthday. Even the next five years are sketchy for most. It's one thing not to recall those years clearly. It's quite another to have no memories at all.Claire Mitchell's memories begin when she comes out of a deep coma in an Oregon hospital. She doesn't know her name or how she came to be abandoned in Oregon's Siskiyou National Forest. No one, not even Kyle Evers, the young forestry student who rescued her, has a clue about how she received the severe injuries that nearly took her life. Her memory loss is so complete she must relearn speech, reading, and how to care for her personal needs. Doctors approximate her age at ten years. An antique locket in her possession suggest her name might be Claire.
Exhaustive efforts to identify her come to nothing. She is eventually released into foster care and adopted by the Mitchells; who shower her with love and devotion.
Twenty years later, normal in all respects except for the cavernous gap in her memory, Clare puts her obsession with her past behind her. Life is good. She is in love and about to be married. She hasn't an enemy in the world, or has she?
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"Lilacs and Lace"
Futures
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Beth Trahern inherits a lovely New England mansion and along with it an eighteenth century mystery. Her ancestor and name sake, Elisabeth, disappeared without a trace almost 150 years ago. Now, Beth's own life hangs in the balance and she must solve the mystery of Elisabeth's disappearance or suffer a similar fate?
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"Dead Certain"
Futures
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The death of Sharon Cooper's ex-husband, Ray, had finally brought an end to the pain, to the threats, to the humiliation of being a battered woman. Or had it? Someone is stalking her. People close to her are dying. Could Ray's cruelty live on? Could he continue his reign of terror from the grave?
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"Hearing Our Characters Speak"
Futures
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Do all your characters sound alike? Are they clones with no individuality? Print out a separate page of dialogue for each character and read it aloud, listening for distinctive elements such as dialect, vocabulary, strength, nonstandard accents, etc. If your characters are unique you will "hear" a discernable difference.
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"Wrong Address"
Murderous Intent |
A few transposed letters in an email address can be murder. Mystery novelist Janet Coleman receives an email intended for an assassin's accomplice. Can she solve this real life mystery before somebody dies—and if she does, at what price—her own life?
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