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Hi, my name’s Cate. I’m Carol Childs’ daughter.
If you don’t already know who Carol Childs is, you will soon. She’s an
investigative reporter for a local talk radio station in Los Angeles. And growing
up the daughter of a local news personality...well, it isn’t always easy. Usually, my mom keeps a definite line between
work and family. She’s always done her best to keep my brother and me out of the limelight, but recently that
wasn’t possible, and I guess I’m partly
to blame.
Mom, or Carol to those who listen to the radio station, has
recently been covering a series of brutal murders. Young women, model types,
whose bodies had been found posed and strangled. The news has everybody
on edge, and when I showed up home after
my first year at college with my boyfriend Pete in tow, mom was none too wild
about it. I suppose it didn’t help that
he was a freelance photographer. But that
didn’t come into play until one morning when I snuck out to visit him at the
beach, and the house where he was staying
was suddenly surrounded by helicopters and a SWAT unit. Pete was arrested! And me, well, what could I do?
I called my mom.
That’s how my summer break started. Me home from school with my boyfriend, and
then Pete getting arrested for the very crime my mom – Carol Childs – had been
investigating. Talk about a small world.
What I didn’t know was that the world was not only small but getting smaller. Not only was my mom working the very story
for which my boyfriend Pete had been arrested, but unbeknownst to me, a
listener had also contacted her via the radio station to say she knew who the
real killer was. Good news, right?
Only it wasn’t. Turns
out my mom couldn’t say anything because this woman wanted to remain
anonymous. Consequently, my mom couldn’t reveal what she had learned until she
could verify the information, and all the while,
Pete was in jail, and the cops were
preparing a case against him. Which was looking pretty strong.
Needless to say, things between my mom and me are strained.
It’s one thing to have your mother not wild about your boyfriend. It’s another when she’s reporting on the
murders of young models, and your
boyfriend is the principal suspect, and she’s including his name in the news every day.
Thankfully, mom’s got a lot of friends around who I
trust. There’s my Aunt Sheri – oh, she’s
not a real aunt, but close as it comes.
They’ve been friends for years, and
she’s a great cook and a fabulous listener.
I could tell her anything and know she’d guard it with her life. Then there’s Misty Dawn. She’s a former Hollywood psychic, and she’s been living with us until she gets on
her feet again. I adore her. More than once she’s interceded on my behalf
with my mom. She gets that I love Pete
and unlike my mom, is convinced I couldn’t possibly be involved with someone
who could have murdered anyone. And then
there’s a new man in mom’s life. Not
that she’d admit it, but I can tell he plans to stay around for a while. His name is Chase. He’s a private investigator. Nice looking and someone I could see my mom
settling in with for a while. But for now, mom’s too busy reporting on the body of a young woman
was found on the beach and trying to keep
me from seeing Pete again. I hope she
finds who really murdered those girls
because the police are convinced Pete did it and I know he’s innocent.
I hope you’ll read REASON TO DOUBT
and weigh in with a review. I know she’d
love that.
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Don't worry Cate, your mom will be able to solve the case.
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