02205cam a2200313 4500 261531502 TxAuBib 20160101120000.0 110919s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2011035915 9780345527011 pbk. 0345527011 pbk. 9780345527028 ebook 034552702X ebook DLC DLC DLC TxAuBib Heaberlin, Julia. Playing dead : a novel of suspense / Julia Heaberlin. New York : Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks, 2012. 344 p. ; 21 cm. "Tommie McCloud's life is alread in turmoil. Her mother has dementia and her father has just died, leaving Tommie a multi-million dollar energy business in Texas. When a letter arrives from Adriana Marchetti, it explodes a bomb in Tommie's life that she never could have anticipated. The letter claims that Adriana Marchetti's baby was kidnapped thirty-one years earlier, and that this baby grew up to become Tommie McCloud. The investigation starts when Tommie discovers that her social security number doesn't add up--it claims that she was born in Chicago. It deepens when Tommie is approached by a man who claims to be a reporter but is actually an FBI agent, and when Tommie discovers that he is there to protect her from the man whom the letter claims is her father--violent mobster Anthony Marchetti--imprisoned for thirty years and now up for parole. She cannot trust anyone. Seeking her identity will take Tommie to the edge of reason and into the murky past of the people she's called family her entire life. Getting to the bottom of her identity will uncover explosive secrets and the darkest of crimes, and Tommie's biggest challenge may be not only to discover who she really is, but to survive"-- Provided by publisher. 20160101. Life change events Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Identity (Psychology) Fiction. FICTION / Suspense. FICTION / Psychological. FICTION / Thrillers. Suspense fiction.