Title: Edge of dark water /
Authors: Lansdale, Joe R., 1951-
Publisher: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Co.,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Female friendship Fiction; Quakers Death Fiction.; Loss (Psychology) Fiction; Female friendship Fiction.; Death Fiction.; Loss (Psychology) Fiction.; Bildungsromans; Bildungsromans.
Abstract: Trying to escape her worthless life leads to unexpected and disastrous consequences when Sue Ellen steals money and a raft and embarks on a journey to dig up her best friend's body, burn it, and sprinkle the ashes in Hollywood.
Contents: May Lynn was a pretty girl from a mean family who dreamed of becoming a film star. Now she's dead -- her body dredged up from the Sabine River, bound with wire and weighted down. Her best friend, Sue Ellen, has a family meaner than May's and a yearning for something greater than she's been given. She thinks the least she can do for her friend is take her ashes to Hollywood, and place them on her favourite actor's grave. But May Lynn's diary holds a secret: the location of a large sum of money. What seems like a stroke of fortune has disastrous consequences, and Sue Ellen's escape is about to get more complicated than she'd ever imagined.