Description
Joey Green has returned to Beaufort, South Carolina, with its palmettos and shrimp boats, to look after his ailing father, who is succumbing to dementia, while his overstressed mother takes a break. Marshall Green’s short-term memory has all but evaporated, but, as if in compensation, his oldest memories are more vivid than ever. His mind keeps slipping backwards in time, retreating into long-ago yesterdays of growing up in Beaufort as a boy.
At first this seems like a blessing of sorts, with the past providing a refuge from a shrinking future, but Joey grows increasingly anxious as his father’s hallucinatory arguments with figures from his youth begin to hint at deadly secrets, scandals, and suspicions long buried and forgotten. Resurfacing from decades past are mysteries that still have the power to shatter lives—and change everything Joey thought he knew.
Especially when a new murder brings the police to his door...
Stephen Weimann @dickens.olen_684
July 29, 2022
5
Great book! -- The story line really pulled me in. Rich blend of connect-the-dots whodunit plus related contextual issues ranging from interpersonal to global that broaden the story's reach, not to mention the much appreciated bonus of Matt Goldman's own particular brand of humor that can be found in all of his books. Highly recommend!