The last talk with Lola Faye
By: Thomas H. Cook
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9781849162029; 9781849162012
Subjects: Murder victims' families; Fiction; Crimes of passion; Adultery; Fathers and sons; Historians; Fathers; Crimes against; Detective and mystery stories
Description: Historian Lucas Page visits St. Louis to give a reading. Among the attendees is someone he does not expect: Lola Faye Gilroy, the "other woman" he has long blamed for his father's murder decades earlier. Now he must discover why Lola Faye has come and what she is after--before it is too late. This is Southern Gothic at its most compelling.
Notes: "An Otto Penzler Book". Genre : Mystery fiction.
Table of contents: title: Thomas H. Cook returns to his home territory in this Southern Gothic mystery set in Alabama. Luke Paige, historian and writer, is signing his latest work in a bookstore when in the queue he spots a woman he hoped never to see again. Lola Faye was once his father's secret lover, the destroyer of his childhood. For her husband shot Luke's father dead, and his mother died soon after. Lola Faye wants to talk; title: and talk; title: over a drink, that becomes dinner, and then another drink. Slowly, painfully, Luke and Lola revisit the terrible events that have shaped their lives. The story they reveal is one of the timeless struggle between fathers and sons; of longed-for passion; of hopes and dreams thwarted by fate and circumstances. This is Southern Gothic at its most compelling.