num_pages: 262
description: Both suspenseful and deeply moving Carolina Moonset is an engrossing novel about family memories both golden and terrible and secrets too dangerous to stay hidden forever from New York Times bestselling and Emmy Award-winning author Matt Goldman.Joey Green has returned to Beaufort South Carolina with its palmettos and shrimp boats to look after his ailing father who is succumbing to dementia while his overstressed mother takes a break. Marshall Greens short-term memory has all but evaporated but as if in compensation his oldest memories are more vivid than ever. His mind keeps slipping backwards in time retreating into long-ago yesterdays of growing up in Beaufort as a boy.At first this seems like a blessing of sorts with the past providing a refuge from a shrinking future but Joey grows increasingly anxious as his fathers hallucinatory arguments with figures from his youth begin to hint at deadly secrets scandals and suspicions long buried and forgotten. Resurfacing from decades past are mysteries that still have the power to shatter livesand change everything Joey thought he knew.Especially when a new murder brings the police to his door...
language: English
title: Carolina Moonset
publisher: Forge Books