Uninvited
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ISBN: 0446518611 / Publisher: Grand Central Pub, April 1995
The slave of an obsessive passion, a man is accused of killing a woman he met on a beach when the two of them were children, in a psychological drama involving the convolutions of the legal system
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A shocking scene sets the story. Four bodies, an entire family, are discovered dead in their luxury home: the son tucked into bed, the daughter alone in the bathroom, the father in his study, and the mother in the kitchen.Twenty years earlier, the murdered mother, Patricia Carver, was a little girl building sandcastles on the beach. A young boy approached her, offered her a seashell, and began a lifelong fantasy around the little girl who grew up, blossomed into womanhood, and seemed to lead a golden, charmed life. Today the boy with the seashell is a man called Tony, accused of multiple murder.His lawyer is the only person capable of following the twisting threads of the individual stories, and the only person who knows the real and final answer to the question of Tony's guilt or innocence. He tells his client: "There's no such thing as truth. Only stories - good and bad."
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