My cousin shovels a handful of fried clam strips into her face. We’re at a diner in Cape May on the Jersey Shore. I played it once, the phone close to my ear, then listened to the echo of my own breathing over the open line, waiting for his words to sink in. Leave it to her to end up facedown in a swimming pool on the hottest day of summer.Ĭaller ID shows Joey called five times. ***This excerpt is from an advance uncorrected copy proof*** "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Smith's Pasadena is a tale of love, damage and salvation set against the backdrop of California's City of Roses. In a homage to the great noir stories of Los Angeles, award-winning author Sherri L. And Jude's got a few skeletons of her own. Once they start turning up, nothing is sacred. And Jude is digging up the past like bones from a shallow grave. Now everyone is a suspect-family and friends alike. When Jude's best friend is found dead in a swimming pool, her family calls it an accident. Lockhart, New York Times bestselling author of We Were Liarsīad things happen everywhere. Smith probes the vulnerable underbellies of a lot of toothy sharks in this page-turning California noir."-E. "Beautiful clothes, bad habits, ugly secrets: Sherri L.
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