The shadows we hide / Allen Eskens.
Joe Talbert, Jr. has never once met his namesake. Now out of college, 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 southern Minnesota. Full of curiosity about whether this man might be his father, Joe is shocked to find that none of the town's residents have much to say about the dead man-other than that his death was long overdue. Joe discovers that the dead man was a loathsome lowlife who cheated his neighbors, threatened his daughter, and squandered his wife's inheritance after she, too, passed away--an inheritance that may now be Joe's. Mired in uncertainty and plagued by his own devastated relationship with his mother, who is seeking to get back into her son's life, Joe must put together the missing pieces of his family history-- before his quest for discovery threatens to put him in a grave of his own.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780316509787
- ISBN: 0316509787
- Physical Description: 343 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2018.
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- Journalists > Fiction.
Fathers and sons > Fiction.
City and town life > Minnesota > Fiction. - Genre:
- Detective and mystery fiction.
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- 33 of 37 copies available at NC Cardinal.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library. (Show)
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- 0 current holds with 37 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jacksonville Main Library | FIC ESKENS (Text) | 36015000491700 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Angier Public Library | F Esk (Text) | 33632002709054 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Avery County Morrison Public Library | FIC ESK (Text) | 31111003030622 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Barco Library | F ESK (Text) | 39488200996454 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Beaufort Main | F ESKEN (Text) | 34208203819957 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Braswell Memorial Main Library | FIC Eskens (Text) | 37807000010388 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Camden County Library | F ESK (Text) | 39488900191752 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Cliffdale Library | F ESKENS (Text) | 31781065138842 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Dorothy Wightman Library | AFIC ESK (Text) | 30372101704341 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| East Asheville Library | F ESK (Text) | 0020512059302 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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Summary:
Joe Talbert, Jr. has never once met his namesake. Now out of college, 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 southern Minnesota. Full of curiosity about whether this man might be his father, Joe is shocked to find that none of the town's residents have much to say about the dead man-other than that his death was long overdue. Joe discovers that the dead man was a loathsome lowlife who cheated his neighbors, threatened his daughter, and squandered his wife's inheritance after she, too, passed away--an inheritance that may now be Joe's. Mired in uncertainty and plagued by his own devastated relationship with his mother, who is seeking to get back into her son's life, Joe must put together the missing pieces of his family history-- before his quest for discovery threatens to put him in a grave of his own.
