Shooting Star

Shooting Star

Joal Jacoby has an orderly, enviable life; a loving husband, a doting mother, a caring boss and best friend. One phone call unravels that tidy world when she is summoned to the bedside of her critically ill mother, whose dying declaration stuns her. She is the adopted daughter of a murdered prostitute with an entire family sheâ€™s never met. After her motherâ€™s funeral, Joal decides to stay in Indiana to figure out who she really is and poke around the edges of her birth family.

As an investigative reporter, Joal has unraveled hundreds of sordid business deals and personal relationships. Eventually someone reveals the truth, but her motherâ€™s murder isnâ€™t the clichÃ© â€œprostitute killed by pimp.â€ The answer may lie with the only witnesses. Her grandmother, the matriarch who tries to keep the family together. Her two brothers, one now a supremely optimistic minister and the other an overly pessimistic doctor. Or the murderer himself, now incarcerated in an Indiana prison.

From the homey heartland of Indiana to the humid jungles of Vietnam, Joel follows two stories riddled with criminal acts and hidden agendas. Her work sends her overseas to follow a homebuilder Ponzi scheme while at home she widens the net to include some more colorful members of her family. Unwittingly, they all provide little pieces to a puzzle that begins to come together revealing a conspiracy of silence that has been suppressed for over three decades.

Shooting Star is first and foremost the story of a woman trying to reclaim her shattered identity. Only by uncovering the essential truths about the mother she never knew can she put some kind of stability back into her life. Solving a thirty year old murder and finding her place in a family she never knew existed are just added bonuses.
Country USA
Manufacturer Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-02-24
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2013-02-24
Format	Kindle eBook

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