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Starred Review. Fowler's lucky 13th novel, a departure from her Agatha Award–winning Benni Harper series (Delectable Mountain, etc.), offers a poignant tale of a family fractured by the secrets of the past. Ruby McGavin, grieving over the recent death of her husband, Cole, is shocked to discover that Cole lied to her about his family. They're not all dead, as he told her, but very much alive, and in his will, he has left her his share of the family ranch in California. Ruby heads to tiny Cardinal, Calif., with Cole's ashes, intent on selling her share of the ranch, but she quickly realizes that Cole had hidden many things from her. Cole's younger brother, Lucas, who has fled his life as a lawyer in San Francisco, has returned to Cardinal, where he scrapes out a life as a saddlemaker. Slowly Ruby and Lucas edge closer to the truth of a secret that haunts both their lives. Fowler, with her gift for drawing painfully real and credible characters, takes the reader along on an emotionally powerful ride. This could well be her breakout book. (May)
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The last thing Ruby McGavin thought she would be doing after her husband, Cole, died was meeting his family. He had claimed his relatives were all dead, and she didn't know him long enough--they were only married one year--to think otherwise. But it turns out that members of Cole's family, from a small ranch town in California, are very much alive, and they show up on Ruby's doorstep with the news that she has inherited some land from her husband. Ruby knows something about family turmoil, but she's hardly prepared for the turbulence surrounding the McGavin clan. As she attempts to sell the land back to the McGavins, she teams up with Lucas, one of Cole's brothers, to try to get to the core of the secret that is eating away at the family. With each step toward the answer, Ruby musters the courage to face her own familial demons. A touching family story set against the backdrop of a covered-up crime--give this one to Margaret Maron fans. Mary Frances Wilkens
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Starred Review. Fowler's lucky 13th novel, a departure from her Agatha Award–winning Benni Harper series (Delectable Mountain, etc.), offers a poignant tale of a family fractured by the secrets of the past. Ruby McGavin, grieving over the recent death of her husband, Cole, is shocked to discover that Cole lied to her about his family. They're not all dead, as he told her, but very much alive, and in his will, he has left her his share of the family ranch in California. Ruby heads to tiny Cardinal, Calif., with Cole's ashes, intent on selling her share of the ranch, but she quickly realizes that Cole had hidden many things from her. Cole's younger brother, Lucas, who has fled his life as a lawyer in San Francisco, has returned to Cardinal, where he scrapes out a life as a saddlemaker. Slowly Ruby and Lucas edge closer to the truth of a secret that haunts both their lives. Fowler, with her gift for drawing painfully real and credible characters, takes the reader along on an emotionally powerful ride. This could well be her breakout book. (May)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From Booklist
The last thing Ruby McGavin thought she would be doing after her husband, Cole, died was meeting his family. He had claimed his relatives were all dead, and she didn't know him long enough--they were only married one year--to think otherwise. But it turns out that members of Cole's family, from a small ranch town in California, are very much alive, and they show up on Ruby's doorstep with the news that she has inherited some land from her husband. Ruby knows something about family turmoil, but she's hardly prepared for the turbulence surrounding the McGavin clan. As she attempts to sell the land back to the McGavins, she teams up with Lucas, one of Cole's brothers, to try to get to the core of the secret that is eating away at the family. With each step toward the answer, Ruby musters the courage to face her own familial demons. A touching family story set against the backdrop of a covered-up crime--give this one to Margaret Maron fans. Mary Frances Wilkens
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Ruby McGavin stopped at the newly restored Manzanar National Historic Site more to delay the inevitable than out of intellectual curiosity. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Lone Pine, Clear Creek, First Night, San Francisco, Main Street, Orange County, Tokopah Lodge, Carson City, Holy Grounds, Las Vegas, Sierra Nevada, Walt Creston, Christmas Eve, Dale Evans, Los Angeles, Emily Robertina, Mitchell Weeks, Blue Christmas, Bobby Hernandez, Lincoln Holyoke, Bernie Gorman, John Henley, San Juan Capistrano, Jake Seligman, Martha Juneau New!
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Ruby McGavin stopped at the newly restored Manzanar National Historic Site more to delay the inevitable than out of intellectual curiosity. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Lone Pine, Clear Creek, First Night, San Francisco, Main Street, Orange County, Tokopah Lodge, Carson City, Holy Grounds, Las Vegas, Sierra Nevada, Walt Creston, Christmas Eve, Dale Evans, Los Angeles, Emily Robertina, Mitchell Weeks, Blue Christmas, Bobby Hernandez, Lincoln Holyoke, Bernie Gorman, John Henley, San Juan Capistrano, Jake Seligman, Martha Juneau New!
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- Last Will and Testament (Disappearing Detectives) by G.D.H. Cole on page 143
- What If by Bonnie M. Cardinal on page 155
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