It took everything in Teresa Farr’s power to return to her hometown of Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Eight years earlier, she had walked in on the savage murders of her father and stepmother—both of whom she hated. She barely managed to save herself and her eight-year-old stepsister, Celeste. But even after notorious serial killer Roscoe Lee Byrnes confessed, people still wondered if Teri was the guilty one. And with Celeste unable to remember that night, or to speak at all, those suspicions never went away…



Now Celeste is beginning to remember. Now Byrnes has recanted his confession. And someone is using a series of bizarre, taunting events to exact terrifying “justice.” As Teri desperately races to uncover the truth, she’s finding that everyone she loves has secrets they would kill to keep buried. And in the bright mountain sunlight, an evil concealed all too well is reaching out to silence her and Celeste forever…

“Thompson knows how to  keep readers enthralled.”—Fresh Fiction



“Mary Higgins Clark fans take note.”—Kirkus Reviews



 

Carlene Thompson has a Ph.D. in English and is a native West Virginian. IF YOU EVER TELL is her twelfth book. She lives with her husband Keith in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, the setting of this novel. She spends her time writing and caring for the many dogs and cats she's adopted over the last twenty years, including the dog in this book—a brown, exuberant, very loud mixed-breed named Sierra. Sierra was born in New Orleans and given to Carlene by her sister-in-law.

Her parents were murdered. The killer confessed. The case is closed.



But the nightmare is beginning again...



It took everything in Teresa Farr’s power to return to her hometown of Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Eight years earlier, she had walked in on the savage murders of her father and stepmother—both of whom she hated. She barely managed to save herself and her eight-year-old stepsister, Celeste. But even after notorious serial killer Roscoe Lee Byrnes confessed, people still wondered if Teri was the guilty one. And with Celeste unable to remember that night, or to speak at all, those suspicions never went away…



IF YOU EVER TELL



Now Celeste is beginning to remember. Now Byrnes has recanted his confession. And someone is using a series of bizarre, taunting events to exact terrifying “justice.” As Teri desperately races to uncover the truth, she’s finding that everyone she loves has secrets they would kill to keep buried. And in the bright mountain sunlight, an evil concealed all too well is reaching out to silence her and Celeste forever…



“Thompson knows how to  keep readers enthralled.”—Fresh Fiction



“Mary Higgins Clark fans take note.”—Kirkus Reviews

Imprint: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Distributor: MPS
Publication Date: 04-01-2008
Pages: 384
Measurements: 6.75in X 4.19in