Sleeping in Eden : A Novel (Paperback)

from julie10reads

Two seemingly unrelated lives converge in this well-crafted literary mystery. In the sleepy town of Blackhawk, Iowa, a woman's remains are discovered in a dilapidated barn. Acting coroner Lucas Hudson is convinced they belong to Angela Sparks, a teenage runaway who, eight years earlier, had been ...

from Beamis12

There was just something I found so addictive about this novel. It is a solidly written story, exploring two different story lines and even though one of the connections is readily apparent quite soon in the book, the who did it and how, was not. Young love, mature love, marriage and the expectat...

from suepk

When I started reading this book I could not understand what the link between Lucas and Meg was. I had decided upon so many different outcomes that when I read the part of the book where it becomes obvious I could not be anymore shocked.In hindsight, it is pretty obvious what the link is between ...

from kathleen.heady

A sleepy rural town in northwest Iowa may sound like an unlikely setting for a murder mystery, but unlikely settings often are the best. When Dr. Lucas Hudson, filling in for the local coroner, is called to the scene of the apparent suicide of a local farmer, he has no idea the circumstances will...

from bookwyrmm

I found Sleeping in Eden to be the type of book that really pulls you in from page one. Sometime alternate storylines pull me out of a novel, but I would become so engrossed in either Lucas's or Meg's story that I was almost disappointed to have to switch to the other - but excited, too, because ...