The Bullet (Thorndike Press Large Print Thriller), by Mary Louise Kelly
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From former NPR correspondent Mary Louise Kelly comes a heart-pounding story about fear, family secrets, and one woman's hunt for answers about the murder of her parents. Two words: The bullet. That's all it takes to shatter her life. Caroline Cashion is beautiful, intelligent, a professor of French literature. But in a split second, everything she's known is proved to be a lie. A single bullet, gracefully tapered at one end, is found lodged at the base of her skull. Caroline is stunned. It makes no sense: she has never been shot. She has no entry wound. No scar. Then, over the course of one awful evening, she learns the truth: that she was adopted when she was three years old, after her real parents were murdered. Caroline was there the night they were attacked. She was wounded too, a gunshot to the neck. Surgeons had stitched up the traumatized little girl, with the bullet still there, nestled deep among vital nerves and blood vessels. That was thirty-four years ago. Now, Caroline has to find the truth of her past. Why were her parents killed? Why is she still alive? She returns to her hometown where she meets a cop who lets slip that the bullet in her neck is the same bullet that killed her mother. Full-metal jacket, .38 Special. It hit Caroline's mother and kept going, hurtling through the mother's chest and into the child hiding behind her. She is horrified--and in danger. When a gun is fired it leaves markings on the bullet. Tiny grooves, almost as unique as a fingerprint. The bullet in her neck could finger a murderer. A frantic race is set in motion: Can Caroline unravel the clues to her past, before the killer tracks her down?
The Bullet (Thorndike Press Large Print Thriller), by Mary Louise Kelly- Amazon Sales Rank: #6874042 in Books
- Brand: Kelly, Mary Louise
- Published on: 2015-05-20
- Format: Large Print
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.40" h x 1.30" w x 5.70" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 557 pages
Review "Kelly's years as a political writer and intelligence correspondent covering wars, terrorism and nuclear powers have served her well, and she portrays James with authority in a smart, fun voice that will stir lust and envy among readers. The author leaves open a window on the final page that suggests a sequel, much to the reader's delight."--Publishers Weekly"Mystery and thriller readers will happily delve into this fast-paced story featuring a feisty protagonist whom one hopes will have further adventures."--Library Journal"In Mary Louise Kelly's entertaining new novel, a smart, sexy reporter wanders into the midst of a truly scary terrorist plot. In the manner of an Alfred Hitchcock thriller, Kelly's heroine has to outfox the conspirators to escape. This book is great fun, from beginning to end."""--David Ignatius, columnist for The Washington Post and author of Bloodmoney"One of the most genuinely chilling plots I've ever read. A scenario that will haunt anyone who's ever read a newspaper. I couldn't put this book down."""--Allison Leotta, author of Speak of the Devil"Mary Louise Kelly's The Bullet is right on target with a riveting, twisty tale of a woman whose search for her own identity leads her to seek vengeance against the killer who stole it from her."--Hallie Ephron, author of NIGHT NIGHT, SLEEP TIGHT
About the Author Mary Louise Kelly has written two novels, "The Bullet "and "Anonymous Sources", and spent two decades traveling the world as a reporter for NPR and the BBC. Her assignments have taken her from grimy Belfast bars to the glittering ports of the Persian Gulf, and from mosques in Hamburg to the ruined deserts of Iraq. As an NPR correspondent covering the intelligence beat and the Pentagon, she reported on wars, terrorism, and rising nuclear powers. A Georgia native, Kelly was educated at Harvard and at Cambridge University in England. She lives in Washington, DC, and Florence, Italy, with her husband and their two children. Learn more at MaryLouiseKellyBooks.com.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. The Bullet One My name is Caroline Cashion, and I am the unlikely heroine of this story. Given all the violence to come, you were probably expecting someone different. A Lara Croft type. Young and gorgeous, sporting taut biceps and a thigh holster, right? Admit it. Yes, all right, fine, I am pretty enough. I have long, dark hair and liquid, chocolate eyes and hourglass hips. I see the way men stare. But there’s no holster strapped to these thighs. For starters, I am thirty-seven years old. Not old, not yet, but old enough to know better. Then there is the matter of how I spend my days. That would be in the library, studying the work of dead white men. I am an academic, a professor on Georgetown University’s Faculty of Languages and Linguistics. My specialty is nineteenth-century France: Balzac, Flaubert, Stendhal, Zola. The university is generous enough to fly me to Paris every year or so, but most of the time you’ll find me in the main campus library, glasses sliding down my nose, buried in old books. Every few hours I’ll stir, cross the quad to deliver a lecture, scold a student requesting extra time for an assignment—and then I return to my books. I read with my legs tucked beneath me, in a soft, blue armchair in a sunny corner of my office nook on the fourth floor. Most nights you will also find me there, sipping tea, typing away, grading papers. Are you getting a sense for the rhythm of my days? I lead as stodgy a life as you can imagine. But it was by doing just this, by following this exact routine, that I came to schedule the medical appointment that changed everything. For months, my wrist had hurt. It began as an occasional tingling. That changed to a sharp pain that shot down my fingers. The pain got worse and worse until my fingers turned so clumsy, my grip so weak, that I could barely carry my bags. My doctor diagnosed too much typing. Too much hunching over books. To be precise—I like to be precise—he diagnosed CTS. Carpal tunnel syndrome. He suggested wearing a wrist splint at night and elevating my keyboard. That helped, but not much. And so it was that I found myself one morning in the waiting room of Washington Radiology Associates. I was scheduled for an MRI, to “rule out arthritis and get to the bottom of what’s going on,” as my doctor put it. It was the morning of Wednesday, October 9. The morning it all began.
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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful. A Realistic, Riveting, Psychological Thriller By Larramie “If you watch HOMELAND, you'll love....." read the red banner atop the ad for Mary Louise Kelly's The Bullet and, yes, it is a great hook. However, while expecting to read of CIA operatives and global terrorism, the heroine Caroline Cashion introduces herself and proceeds to tell her story that is actually about the terror of discovering who you really are....at thirty-seven years old.Discovering a bullet, lodged in her neck since she was three, shatters Caroline's content, complacent life and grazes those who love and surround her. First it's a mystery, then the novel evolves into a psychological thriller that could have been ripped from headlines and deemed life is stranger than fiction. In other words, this is not the dark world of either Gone Girl or The Girl on the Train. Instead the storyline is grounded in reality and the supporting cast of characters would be considered normal by any standard. And therein lies the beauty of the story of being incredibly believable.A former NPR and BBC journalist, Mary Louise Kelly uses just enough detail and dialogue to create a "coming of age" story -- when at any age -- stressful circumstances present themselves and challenge one to realize what they are truly capable of.The Bullet will capture your imagination, keep you turning pages, have you thinking "Aha," and only allowing an exhale at The End. I cannot recommend it more highly. Please, enjoy......
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful. Great premise and decent twists By Laurie@The Baking Bookworm My Review: The wonderfully intriguing premise is what got me to request this book immediately. A woman not only finds out that she was adopted but learns that she has had a bullet in her neck since the age of three and doesn't remember ever getting shot nor does she have a scar? Tell me more.This novel is written by Mary Louise Kelly, a former journalist, and while the premise was great I think that the execution needed a little work. What I loved were the short chapters and the suspense of who the murderer was kept me reading for the first half of the book. There's one action scene that I finished and I'm pretty sure I didn't have any fingernails left but overall I think the book lacked the tension I was expecting for a suspense read.Caroline was an okay main character. Her predicament put her in an unusual situation but overall I can't say that she's a character that will stay with me. She's a smart woman, a university professor no less, but after learning she's adopted and the reason why she was adopted she suddenly becomes very erratic and makes some potentially dangerous choices. Knowing that the bullet could put the murderer away why would you tell your story repeatedly to a newspaper? Why wouldn't you set your security alarm on your house if you think you're in danger? It just didn't sit well with me and made Caroline come off as silly.I'm also not a fan of suspense reads who slip in a romance 'just cuz' and that's what Caroline's romance felt like. It happened too suddenly for me could have been left out all together without hindering the main story line.Overall, this was a decent read. There were some good moments and some twists that I didn't see coming. I enjoyed the beginning of the book and the build-up but in the last half of the book my interest started to wane a bit and unfortunately I didn't find it nearly as compelling as I was hoping. This was a decent novel I'm intrigued to see what her future books will be like. I think this would be a good book for people who enjoy lighter suspense reads.My Rating: 3/5 starsDisclaimer: My sincere thanks to NetGalley and Gallery Books for providing me with a complimentary e-book copy in exchange for my honest review.**This book review can also be found on my blog, The Baking Bookworm (www.thebakingbookworm.blogspot.ca) where I share hundreds of book reviews and my favourite recipes. **
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Too many inconsistencies for me By Susan Drees The Bullet is about just that, a surprise find. A 37 year old woman has a diagnostic MRI due to arm pain and discovers she has a bullet lodged at the base of her skull. And she has no knowledge of how it got there. From there, this organized, French professor's assumptions about her entire life begin to implode. And the story is actually engaging. Caroline's story, while somewhat far fetched, is also interesting to read.But, and there is a but, there are problems here. There are inconsistencies of character and of plot. Would the presence of the bullet in the body and learning of earlier life events change character traits developed over the past 34 years? There are a lot of inconsistencies of character that are difficult to accept and a plot that becomes simply over the top at the end. Does a life-changing event justify what seems almost an apparent change of personality over the course of the novel?While I did read the entire book, my interest really flagged by the final third where I found the problems overwhelmed the storytelling. Of course the mystery/thriller genre has certain tropes that are present to greater and lesser degrees in all participants. This book needed to be tighter and more consistent for me.I've had difficulty with rating this book and am going to go with 2 to 2.5 because of my disappointment with the final third of the book.A copy of this book was provided by the publisher through NetGalley in return for an honest review.
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