Penny S. (pennys) reviewed on 10/30/2006 + 194 more book reviews

Words are like a road map to reporter Camille Preaker's troubled past. Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, Camille's first assignment from teh second rate daily paper where she works brings her reluctantly back to her hometown to cover the murder of two preteen girls. Since she left town twelve years ago, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half sister she barely knows; a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now installed again in her family's victorian mansion. Camille is haunted by the childhood tragedy she has spent her whole life trying to cut from her memory. As Camille works to uncover the truth about these violent crimes, she finds herself identifying with the young victims-a bit to strongly. Clues keep leading to dead ends, forcing Camille to unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past to get at the story. Dogged by her demons, Camille will have to confront what happend to her years before if she wants to survive the homecoming.

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