The Shadows We Hide
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4.5 • 11 Ratings
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- £3.99
Publisher Description
The stunning new novel from the bestselling author of The Life We Bury.
A young reporter must come to terms with his past - and present - while investigating the murder of a man he believes could be his father.
Joe Talbert, Jr. has never once met his namesake. A cub reporter for the Associated Press in Minneapolis, he stumbles across a story describing the murder of a man named Joseph Talbert in a small town in Minnesota.
Curious about whether this man might be his father, Joe is shocked to discover that the dead man was a loathsome lowlife who squandered his wife's inheritance - an inheritance that may now be Joe's.
Mired in uncertainty, Joe must piece together his family history - before his quest for discovery threatens to put him in a grave of his own.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Joe Talbert, last seen in Edgar-finalist Eskens's debut, 2014's The Life We Bury, is now a Minneapolis-based Associated Press reporter. In this brilliant sequel full of deeply developed characters, Talbert feels compelled to investigate after he runs across a story detailing the murder of Joe "Toke" Talbert, a person he never met but could have been his father, in the small southern Minnesota town of Buckley. A junk car collector rumored to be involved in more than a few felonious crimes, Toke could have been killed by any number of locals. Talbert's search for answers becomes complicated when he discovers that Toke's wife recently committed suicide and his late father stood in line to inherit millions. Eskens keeps readers guessing until the last pages in this darkly lyrical and brutally intimate story of one man's journey of self-discovery.
