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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Harpercollins
Published: Jun 2005
Genre: Fiction - Psychological
Retail Price: $15.99
Pages: 308
After a mysterious fall from his Manhattan apartment, Philip Chase has moved home with his mother, Charlene, a bitter woman who has never fully accepted the death ofher younger son, Ronnie, five years earlier. Numb from watching too much TV and trading snipes with his mother, Philip is in stasis. But everything changes one winter night when Ronnie's high school girlfriend shows up on their doorstep to deliver the news that she is pregnant ... and the father, she claims, is Ronnie.
So begins the startling tale as Philip and his mother confront Melissa's past and their own. Their search for answers takes them on an emotional journey, placing them in the path of murder and revenge. At once a moving story of redemption and a heart-stopping work of suspense, Strange but True brings to life a cast of characters that no reader will soon forget.
An excellent book -- I will definitely keep my eye out for other John Searles titles -- he is a great author that really fleshes out the emotions of his characters and keeps you thinking about them long after you have read the last page.