Duncan Avery, father and admired physician, is convicted of brutally murdering his wife. He is sentenced to prison based on circumstantial evidence. The Avery children are sent to various safe havens, separating them from scandal, from one another, and from any sense of family. When Duncan Avery is paroled 15 years later, only his daughter Nina, who believes he was wrongly convicted, welcomes him. Together the two begin to search for the real killer. More fascinating than the outcome of the predictable plot are Patricia MacDonald's psychological insights into the convoluted machinations of ordinary family life. Bernadette Dunne narrates, making each family member's situation explicit. While Dunne's reading does little to develop individual character voices, her intelligent reading of MacDonald's perceptive character studies ensures listener interest. S.J.H. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine--
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Nina Avery is taking a break from her acting "career" (she survives on bit parts in soaps and the occasional commercial) so that she can help her father adjust to life on the outside. Nina was only 16 when she found her mother dead, stabbed with a kitchen knife. But Nina's father, Duncan, a doctor, found her first, and he was implicated, charged, and eventually convicted of murdering his wife. Nina never thought he was guilty, unlike her older brother, Patrick. Nina's other brother, Jimmy, is only now recovering from the drug and alcohol abuse that gave him solace after losing his mother to death and his father to jail. Duncan insists on returning home, but the small town isn't ready to forgive and forget. Then more tragedy forces Nina to dig further into the death of her mother. MacDonald, the master of the small-town tragedy, delivers another sure winner.
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