eBooks - Social Issues - Family - Laura Wilson - Dying Voices
Dying Voices eBooks
by Laura Wilson
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Dying Voices Summary
| Deadly legacy...It was a media circus that only the British tabloids can create: the kidnapping of beautiful Susan Blackstock by a radical group ? and the refusal of her multimillionaire husband to pay the 10-million-pound ransom. Eight-year-old Dodie Blackstock never saw her mother again. Now twenty-nine, Dodie has struggled for two decades to step out from the shadows of past tragedy and her father's wealth. But a visit from two policemen changes everything. They bring the news she has waited for years to hear, yet it is completely unexpected. Susan Blackstock's body has finally been found ? and she has been dead only forty-eight hours.Dodie's return to the family estate brings more confusion than answers. There she confronts a legacy of secrets and lies that shakes her trust in everyone she knows. And trust becomes a life-or-death issue, as threatening messages appear on her doorstep ... and death touches those Dodie loves most. |
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My name is Dodie Blackstock. Well, it's supposed to be Dorothy, but I hate it. And yes, it's those Blackstocks. Wolf Blackstock was my father. I'm the one who inherited all the money. My mother was his third wife. The one who was kidnapped. I hate telling people. Sometimes — no, often — I lie. Because when they ask if I'm related, they expect me to say something like, "No, but I wish I had his money," and then we can talk about the kidnap and how weird that they never found her body, and that leads us on to the summer of 1976 and how hot it was. If you're about my age — I'm twenty-nine — I already know it was your best school holiday ever and that you went to the open-air pool every day and came back in the evening feeling as if the sun was inside you. If I do tell the truth, I usually regret it. Because if you tell someone that your father was Wolf Blackstock and your mother was murdered by her kidnappers, you might just as well add, "And by the way, I'm seriously screwed up," because that'll be what they're thinking. I've had every sort of reaction, from total disbelief to a level of sympathy where they're almost ready to commit suicide on my behalf, and they've only known me five minutes. But the worst thing is the nice people, the ones who just say, "God, that must have been terrible." I just say, "Yeah, well..." and talk about something else. But it's always uncomfortable. It's as if people feel guilty because they asked or they'd made a joke about it or something. And because they're fascinated by the money, of course. People used to ask all the time. I used to think about handing out flyers with my life story printed on t... |
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