Shoot the Moon
by Billie Letts
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Author: Billie LettsEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-08-01
ISBN: 0446401145
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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Book Review: Feel good book
Summary: 3 Stars
This is a feel good book, the characters and the plot are predictible. There is a murder mystery but the story is not evil or suspenseful as most books of this genre. The main character is Mark Albright a very wealthy Hollywood vet who is a vet to the animals of the stars. He has inherited the hospital from his deceased father; his mother is in an Alzheimers home. Mark goes through papers and finds out that he is adopted and wonders who he really is. His parents have done very well for him, but he feels he needs to search for his real parents. He goes through newspapers and finds out that a baby, who disappeared and if this child was still alive, would be the same age as he is now. So off to DeClare, Oklahoma, a dying rough edged little town, he goes.
There is the town sheriff, Oliver Boyd Danield, nicknamed OBoy, who brow beats everyone he can, rough, tough and mean who dominates the town and frightens everyone he who is afraid of him. He also figures himself a ladies man. He has a half brother who is equally cruel, mean and sadistic, brother owns the town radio station.
Then there is the sheriff's wife who is much prettier and younger than her husband and is a devoted mother to her Down syndrome son. Brother has a step son who is a junkie well hooked up on drugs who he must give a job to. This is his ex-wife's son and the money for the radio station is hers so her son must be kept employed.
The two brothers try to run Mark out of town, but he refuses to leave until he finds out whether or not he is the long lost baby. These two men also have Mark thrown in jail and are constantly harrassing him. Mark is befriended by two of DeClare's citizens, Teeve, who owns the local cafe and her daughter Ivy who is pregnant but hardly knew her baby's father. Ivy plans to put the baby up for adoption as soon as it's born.
Mark is constantly getting calls from the animals' owners and from members of his clinic. He feels no duty to his patients nor their owners. To many people their pets are members of their family. So he doesnt' bother to try to get back with his clinic. Mark Albright wants to know who he is, who his mother was and who was his father. When he comes to the town he doesm't know if he was the long lost baby who disappeared so many years ago and if the murdered woman was really his mother. He takes a liking to Ivy who he finds to be his cousin, but is she really his cousin?
The books ends by Mark finding out who he really is, who killed his mother and who his father is. He moves to DeClare because he wants to get away from the Hollywood scene. The book ends happily ever after.
Summary of Shoot the Moon
From one of America's best-loved storytellers - the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller WHERE THE HEART IS - comes her latest national bestseller, a tale of a small Oklahoma town and the mystery that has haunted its residents for years.In 1972, windswept DeClare, Oklahoma, was consumed by the murder of a young mother, Gaylene Harjo, and the disappearance of her baby, Nicky Jack. When the child's pajama bottoms were discovered on the banks of Willow Creek, everyone feared that he, too, had been killed, although his body was never found.
Nearly thirty years later, Nicky Jack mysteriously returns to DeClare, shocking the town and stirring up long-buried memories. But what he discovers about the night he vanished is more astonishing than he or anyone could have imagine. Piece by piece, what emerges is a story of dashed hopes, desperate love, and a secret that still cries out for justice...and redemption.
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