Matchbook

"I loved it. It's got such a unique voice and Carol has the perfect balance of humor and pathos." --Jen Crawford at St. Martin's When Carol calls a number she finds in a matchbook, a man promises to answer the mystery of her daughter's death. But he's playing a dangerous game--one she must survive if she's to unravel the truth. Set on the streets of San Antonio, Matchbook is a compelling psychological mystery, as witty and entertaining as it is gripping. Praise and raves: "The author's...
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"I loved it. It's got such a unique voice and Carol has the perfect balance of humor and pathos." --Jen Crawford at St. Martin's When Carol calls a number she finds in a matchbook, a man promises to answer the mystery of her daughter's death. But he's playing a dangerous game--one she must survive if she's to unravel the truth. Set on the streets of San Antonio, Matchbook is a compelling psychological mystery, as witty and entertaining as it is gripping. Praise and raves: "The author's voice is something special here--direct, fresh, and subversively humorous." -- Oliver Haslegrove at Little, Brown "(The author) has a great voice. And I love Maurice!" --Toni Plummer at Thomas Dunne Books "I had a lot of fun reading THE MATCHBOOK by (Desiree) Prosapio. She has a deft hand for creating likeable and believable characters and her dialogue reminded me a lot of Evanovich and Grafton in its dry wit and timing. Carol is a great leading lady; I found her extremely sympathetic and believable without becoming too cloying or melodramatic. Prosapio's knowledge of life on the streets also came through, as you said it would, and her intimacy with the subject made Carol that much more affecting." --Anna deVries at Scribner "The writing has a nice sense of place and good sense of humor, and the ending is well done with the dramatic rescue " -- Beth de Guzman at Grand Central Publishing 'I liked Carol, her protagonist, and it was fun to read something set in San Antonio, sticky summer-heated streets and all." -- Sarah Branham at Atria Who is Carol? Carol Lassiter, the wisecracking, streetwise heroine of Matchbook, is emotionally lost after her daughter Ella's alleged suicide. But when a matchbook with a phone number scrawled inside is dropped into her "donations" box, Carol is dragged into a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a mystery man who dangles a dramatically different story of Ella's death. As she searches for the truth, Ella's secrets catch up with her and Carol must question her own tenuous sanity.