Paper Ghosts: A Novel of Suspense by Julia Heaberlin. Ballantine Books (Random House), 2018. Adult fiction.When her older sister is kidnapped and murdered, the narrator is twelve years old. Now an adult, she thinks she knows who killed her sister and several other young women. Determined to take Carl, a senior citizen who exhibits symptoms of dementia and who is an award winning photographer, on a road trip to spark his memory and maybe prove her theories, the narrator springs Carl by claiming to be his daughter and off they go. This is a waltz across Texas: Calvert, Galveston, Muleshoe, and behind the "Pine Curtain" in East Texas, the duo have unexpected adventures. Is Carl dangerous? Is the girl telling the whole truth? Heaberlin takes readers along for the ride in this creepy, suspenseful story that will have everyone up late reading to see what happens.
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