Secrets to the Grave

New York: Dutton, 2011. L2 - A first edition (First Printing January 2011 stated with complete numberline) hardcover book SIGNED by Tami Hoag on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has some wrinkling, chipping and crease on the edges and corners, some patches scuffed on the back left side, light discoloration and shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners, wrinkling on the spine edges, darkened page edges, moderate tanning and light shelf wear. "She lay discarded like a life-size broken doll - made up, torn up, and cast aside, her brown eyes cloudy and lifeless." 9.5"x6.5", 449 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Marissa Fordham had a past full of secrets, a present full of lies. Everyone knew of her, but no one knew her. When Marissa is found brutally murdered, her young daughter, Haley, with her head on her mother's bloody breast, this mystery woman sends the idyllic California town of Oak Knoll into a tailspin. Already on edge with the upcoming trial of the See- No-Evil killer, residents are shocked at reports of the crime scene, which might not have been discovered for days but for a chilling 911 call: a small child's voice saying, "My daddy hurt my mommy." The police face a puzzle with nothing but pieces that won't fit. To assist with their only witness, four-year-old Haley, they call the teacher-turned-child advocate Anne Leone. Anne's life is hectic enough - she's a newlywed and a part- time student in child psychology, and she's the star witness in the See-No-Evil trial. But one look at Haley, alone and terrified, and Anne's heart is stolen. As Anne, her FBI profiler husband, Vince, and local sheriff's deputy Tony Mendez begin to peel back the layers of Marissa Fordham's life, they find a clue fragment here, another there. And just when it seems Marissa has taken her secrets to the grave, they uncover a fact that puts Anne and Haley directly in the sights of a killer: Marissa Fordham never existed.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.