Timidity

Résumé du livre

Outside Annette Mosconi's jail cell the heat from late spring, 1945, settles on Johnsonville. Women fan themselves on front porches and discuss the war and 'that brazen woman' while their husbands toil under ceiling fans in offices and shops downtown. Annette, falsely accused of murder, and held incommunicado without benefit of counsel, by a corrupt sheriff has no one to turn to for help but her teenage son, Rick. But Rick's ability to help his mother is in doubt because of a genetic psychological quirk he calls the heebie jeebies that make him dysfunctional in critical situations. The forces aligned against them are formidable and merciless Will he be able to conquer his inner demon and come through when, finally, his and his mother's very lives depend on it? The story begins with a grisly murder committed by an unwilling perpetrator and ends decades later in an explosive court hearing at which long held secrets are revealed that will change the lives of all the citizens of Ochotah County forever.