Playing Dead, A Novel by Julia Heaberlin

 Playing Dead, A Novel by Julia Heaberlin. Random House, 2012. Mystery.

With her father now dead and her mother slipping into dementia, Tommie McCloud faces a dilemma that life on a Texas ranch with her sister and brother and parents never prepared her to experience. A letter arrives that asks, "Do you really know who you are?" It claims to be from a woman in Chicago who thinks she is Tommie's mother. Her real father, supposedly, is a Mafia crime boss! Tommie assembles a diverse cast of her own and her father's friends to help her find out the truth. Is she really the little kidnapped girl, Adriana, from over thirty years ago?

Racing through Texas and drinking Dr. Pepper, Tommie is as Texan a heroine as can be imagined. Readers will enjoy the ride as they follow clues and sort through for the truth as Tommie becomes more and more involved in danger. What can she believe? Whom can she trust?

This is the debut novel of  Julia Heaberlin. She has written several other titles now, but catch her as she began with this one.