EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST NOVEL As Before She Was Helen opens, readers are drawn into what appears to be a light, retirement-community caper.
Cooney comes Before She Was Helen , an absorbing mystery that brings decades-old secrets to life and explores what happens when the lie you\'ve been living falls apart and you\'re forced to confront the truth..
From international bestselling author of The Face on the Milk Carton Caroline B.
And the bland, quiet life Clemmie has built for herself in her sleepy South Carolina retirement community comes crashing down as her dark past surges into the present.
Suddenly thrown into the heart of a twisted investigation, Clemmie finds herself the uncomfortable subject of intense scrutiny. and she was the last person at the crime scene, where she left her fingerprints. . .
Can fifty years of careful hiding under names not her own be ruined by one careless picture? And although what Clemmie finds is a work of art, what the police find is a body.
As the picture swirls over the internet, Clemmie tries desperately to keep a grip on her own personal network of secrets.
Clemmie photographs the wondrous object on her cell phone and makes the irrevocable error of forwarding it.
Something stunning, beautiful and inexplicable.
But something else is.
Her life didn\'t turn out the way she expected--so she made herself a new one When Clemmie goes next door to check on her difficult and unlikeable neighbor Dom, he isn\'t there.
Cooney comes a domestic thriller perfect for fans of mystery books by Laura Lippman and Alice Feeney.
Between old crimes and fresh murders, septuagenarian protagonist Clemmie faces an unspeakable fear that will keep readers hooked in this twisty whodunit.--Julie Hyzy, New York Times bestselling author From the critically acclaimed, international bestselling author Caroline B.
Cooney quickly flips expectations upside-down in this deceptively dark mystery.
But author Caroline B.
EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST NOVEL As Before She Was Helen opens, readers are drawn into what appears to be a light, retirement-community caper
