Worlds of Books which will meet one week and one hour earlier than usual
will meet Sunday December 13th at 4 pm Eastern, 3 pm Central in the Book
Nook Room of Accessibleworld.org to discuss The bullet DB81533 by Mary
Louise Kelly. After our discussion, you can hang around the following hour
and gorge on more books at Joanie Leonard's Banquet of Books.
Here is the NLS annotation:
The <https://nlsbard.loc.gov:443/nlsbardprod/download/detail/srch/DB81533>
bullet DB81533
Kelly, Mary Louise. Reading time: 10 hours, 54 minutes.
Read by Gabriella Cavallero.
Suspense Fiction
Mystery and Detective Stories
When a painful wrist results in thirty-seven-year-old Georgetown professor
Caroline Cashion getting an MRI, she is astonished to learn that she has a
bullet lodged in her neck. Her parents' reaction sends Caroline on a
dangerous quest into her past. Some violence, some strong language, and some
descriptions of sex. 2015.
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Here is the Bookshare long synopsis:
From former NPR correspondent Mary Louise Kelly comes a heart-pounding story
about fear, family secrets, and one woman's hunt for answers about the
murder of her parents.Two words: The bullet. That's all it takes to shatter
her life. Caroline Cashion is beautiful, intelligent, a professor of French
literature. But in a split second, everything she's known is proved to be a
lie. A single bullet, gracefully tapered at one end, is found lodged at the
base of her skull. Caroline is stunned. It makes no sense: she has never
been shot. She has no entry wound. No scar. Then, over the course of one
awful evening, she learns the truth: that she was adopted when she was three
years old, after her real parents were murdered. Caroline was there the
night they were attacked. She was wounded too, a gunshot to the neck.
Surgeons had stitched up the traumatized little girl, with the bullet still
there, nestled deep among vital nerves and blood vessels. That was
thirty-four years ago. Now, Caroline has to find the truth of her past. Why
were her parents killed? Why is she still alive? She returns to her hometown
where she meets a cop who lets slip that the bullet in her neck is the same
bullet that killed her mother. Full-metal jacket, .38 Special. It hit
Caroline's mother and kept going, hurtling through the mother's chest and
into the child hiding behind her. She is horrified--and in danger. When a
gun is fired it leaves markings on the bullet. Tiny grooves, almost as
unique as a fingerprint. The bullet in her neck could finger a murderer. A
frantic race is set in motion: Can Caroline unravel the clues to her past,
before the killer tracks her down?
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Mickey Prahin and I will be moderating and please join us for this
discussion. All are welcome and the more participants, the livelier the
discussion.
Co-Hosts:
Mickey Prahin (mickeyprahin@xxxxxxxxx)
Alan Lemly (walemly@xxxxxxxxx)
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