Blood Ties
Barbara Fradkin
Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Beschreibung
Country handyman Cedric O’Toole finds his life turned upside down when a stranger named Steve shows up at his farm, claiming to be his brother.
Steve believes they have the same father, and he is on a quest to find him, as Cedric’s unwed mother took the secret of their father’s identity to her grave. Together Steve and Cedric embark on a hunt for answers. At every turn, people seem to have secrets: the police officer who investigated a suspicious death years ago and who is now the chief near retirement, Cedric’s aunt Penny, who knows all the gossip in the town but claims to know nothing about the death and, most alarming of all, Cedric’s own grandparents and uncle, who insist no good will come of his questions. What are they all hiding? And does Cedric really want to know the answers?
This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for older teen readers and adults who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don’t like to read!
Kundenbewertungen
accidental sleuth, alcoholism, loneliness, teenage mother, flashbacks, rural Ontario, Canadian military, organic farm, snowmobile death, grief, handyman, short mystery, estranged family, single mother, police cover-up, family secrets, murder, village life, family connection, scrub farm, easy read, Afghanistan, incest, homelessness, long-lost brother, homeless children, ancestry search, village secrets, post traumatic stress syndrome, unknown father, country handyman, male sleuth, deathbed confession