Death, love and murder — no one can escape the first, hopefully everyone experiences the second and the third befalls no one. Matt Goldman’s Carolina Moonset circles all three in this traditional mystery that follows the path of a gun found, a gun gone missing and then found again. From family and memory loss to the memories of lost days, this trade paper original covers so much ground in under 300 pages.
Joey Green has returned to Beaufort, South Carolina, with its palmettos and shrimp boats, to look after his ailing father, who is succumbing to dementia, while his overstressed mother takes a break. Marshall Green’s short-term memory has all but evaporated, but, as if in compensation, his oldest memories are more vivid than ever. His mind keeps slipping backwards in time, retreating into long-ago yesterdays of growing up in Beaufort as a boy.
At first this seems like a blessing of sorts, with the past providing a refuge from a shrinking future, but Joey grows increasingly anxious as his father’s hallucinatory arguments with figures from his youth begin to hint at deadly secrets, scandals, and suspicions long buried and forgotten. Resurfacing from decades past are mysteries that still have the power to shatter lives—and change everything Joey thought he knew.
Especially when a new murder brings the police to his door...
Product Details
ISBN-13: 9781250810144
Media Type: Paperback
Publisher: Tor Publishing Group
Publication Date: 05-31-2022
Pages: 272
Product Dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.90(d)
About the Author
New York Times bestselling author MATT GOLDMAN is a playwright and Emmy Award-winning television writer for Seinfeld, Ellen, and other shows. Goldman has been nominated for the Shamus and Nero Awards and was a Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List selection. He lives in Minnesota with his wife, two dogs, two cats, and whichever children happen to be around.