![]() This is particularly true when she talks about her native Texas, a place where, especially for Bubba’s fandom, Vivvy thinks “carrying a gun is like carrying a wallet.” (Which is why she has started carrying her mother’s gun: for protection.) In this, her sixth novel, Heaberlin’s writing walks the line between plain speech and poetry. One surprise twist follows another, with the last one coming out of nowhere to fulfill a vision that we almost forgot Vivvy had. While the formidable Jesse Sharp tails her everywhere to protect her from Bubba and his cultists, Vivvy works to find evidence to back up her conviction that Lizzie is alive - something that only Vivvy and Lizzie’s imprisoned mother think might be true. When word leaks out that Vivvy is helping the police on Lizzie’s case, she becomes a target for Bubba Guns, a local radio talk-show host and podcaster with a national following and a crude, cruel modus operandi, not unlike Alex Jones. Related: Julia Heaberlin has some creepy obsessions, and they're on display in her new thriller, 'Paper Ghosts' Now, the father lives in a trailer park and the mother in the women’s prison at Gatesville’s Mountain View Unit. Another year later, her father tried and failed to commit suicide at the old mansion. A year later, her mother was convicted on circumstantial evidence, though Lizzie was never found. Her parents were well-to-do, handsome lawyers with a crumbling marriage. The cold-case file is about Lizzie Solomon, a Fort Worth 3-year-old who vanished from her family’s Victorian mansion one morning 11 years ago. Less air, less space, less me.” Later, she confesses what she feels is even more dangerous: “Dark, inexplicable attraction.” ![]() … There’s much less of everything while he’s in the room. The gun at his waist, inconsequential, a prop he doesn’t need. When he finally enters the interview room, his alpha-male presence so overwhelms Vivvy that “Jesse Sharp feels on top of me. Vivvy will look at the photos from one landmark cold case and get “an official introduction to this skeptical cop,” a cowboy-style lawman by the name of Sharp. This time, the sixth time, her mother has just died, and it feels different. ![]()
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