From Publishers Weekly
Novelist-poet O'Hehir (Pulitzer Prize-nominated I Wish This War Were Over ) turns her talents to a gracefully executed thriller that explores how memories can both protect and endanger us. Carla Day, the 25-year-old daughter of world-renowned Egyptologist Edward Day, is worried about her aging father, whose behavior has become dangerously erratic as suffers the early stages of Alzheimer's. Increasingly agitated, he insists that a woman was murdered and wrapped in a golden net. Edward lives at Green Beach Manor, an exclusive assisted living facility near Berkeley, California. His confusion and weakening mental state, however, have the Manor's staff threatening to move him to their tighter-security psychiatric building, Hope House, an "auxiliary facility" from which no one ever returns. To be near her father-and to get a handle on some sinister goings-on-Carla takes a job as an aid at the home. Is her father delusional or did he really witness a murder? The home's threatening atmosphere turns fatal when Carla discovers a dead body, and with the help of her on-again-off-again boyfriend Robbie, she determines to figure out what's happening at Green Beach Manor and protect her father at all costs.
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*Starred Review* Combining a traditional murder mystery with a subtle portrait of a complex father-daughter relationship, the author of the highly regarded
I Wish This War Were Over (1984) offers a fascinating, genre-bending mix of literary and crime fiction. When Carla Day goes to visit her father at Green Beach Manor, an expensive nursing home on the California coast, she doesn't like what she finds. Her former Egyptologist father, who is slowly succumbing to Alzheimer's, claims to have witnessed a murder on a secluded beach near the nursing home. No one believes him--he's an Alzheimer's patient, after all--except Carla. When more odd things begin happening at Green Beach, including a resident finding glass in her food and an employee being murdered, Carla decides to stay on as an aide so she can keep an eye on her father and try to determine exactly what took place on that secluded beach. A story that will move and captivate all who read it, especially those who love an elderly parent who is slipping away before their eyes.
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