First published 2015
Rachel Matson lies paralyzed in her bed, dying but mentally sharp. The former photographer watches Antiques Roadshow when a woman appears asking about an old pistol. Rachel recognizes the gun. It belonged to her late husband. She cannot understand how this stranger came to possess their family heirloom. Rachel recruits her nurse Dilys and Jenny, the woman from the television show, to help investigate. Using her old photographs as clues, she begins tracing the weapon's journey from her home to the antiques program. The search leads into family history Rachel never knew existed. Dark secrets emerge from decades past. The truth about the gun connects to dangerous events that someone wanted buried forever. Rachel races against her failing body to solve the mystery before death claims her.
Genres: suspense, mystery, thriller
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: race-against-time, unreliable-narrator
262 pages · Kindle Edition · Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Content warnings: terminal-illness