Edge of dark water
By: Joe R. Lansdale
Publisher: Mulholland Books/Hodder
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781444736861; 9781444736878
Subjects: Female friendship; Fiction; Serial murderers; Voyages and travels; Loss (Psychology); History
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: May Lynn was a pretty girl from a mean family who dreamed of becoming a film star. Now she's dead; title: 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.