"Carol, I know what happened to your daughter. You have to believe me..."
At moments tender, and others inexplicably funny, the mystery novel, Matchbook, follows the harrowing quest of a most unlikely heroine.
Driven into a deep depression by the death of her daughter, Carol Lassiter has been homeless for three years. She's working out of her self-declared homeless oasis, a perfect place for collecting money while she nods in and out of an alcohol-inspired haze. As she gathers her box of "donations," she discovers a matchbook with a phone number scrawled on the inside cover. She calls the number, and suddenly she's hurled back into the mystery she's been desperately trying to forget. The voice on the other end claims to have an answer to the question that savagely unraveled her world to begin with—the death of her daughter Ella, a death ruled by police as a suicide.
Carol begins a harrowing journey following clues about the last weeks of her daughters life, guided by the voice of a man who might be either her killer–or Carol's desperate delusion.
Matchbook is a novel that will keep you guessing, longing, and at times, laughing. Most of all, it will keep you turning pages until the very end.