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by Lynn Hightower

Author:	Lynn Hightower
Subcategory:	Genre Fiction
Language:	English
Publisher:	Henry Holt and Co.; First Edition edition (July 2, 2002)
Pages:	320 pages
Category:	Fiction and Literature
Rating:	4.2
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Lynn Hightower grew up in Kentucky, and graduated from the University of Kentucky, where she studied creative writing with Wendell Berry and earned a degree in Journalism.

A daughter's intuition. A father's terrifying secret. Lynn Hightower grew up in Kentucky, and graduated from the University of Kentucky, where she studied creative writing with Wendell Berry and earned a degree in Journalism. She also teaches novel writing in the Writer’s Program at UCLA. Survival jobs include writing television commercials, catering waitress, and bartender for one day.

Lynn Hightower’s most successful book yet, High Water, packs a powerful combination of intrigue and insight. Pocket Star Mass Market Paperback ISBN: 0743466241 September 2003. Henry Holt and Co. Hardcover ISBN: 0-8050-6756-6 July 2002. Join me at the UCLA Extension Writer's Program, where I'm an online instructor. If you are are interested in private on, please use the Contact page and I will get back to you. The Opinionated Author. Mentorship student anna lefler publishes The chick-tionary.

Lynn Hightower grew up in Kentucky, and graduated from the University of Kentucky, where she studied creative writing with Wendell Berry and earned a degree in Journalism. She recently taught novel writing in the Writer's Program at UCLA. Genres: Science Fiction.

Lynn Hightower grew up in the South and graduated from the University of Kentucky, where she studied creative writing with Wendell Berry and earned a journalism degree

Lynn Hightower grew up in the South and graduated from the University of Kentucky, where she studied creative writing with Wendell Berry and earned a journalism degree. She is the author of ten novels, including two mystery series, one featuring homicide detective Sonora Blair and the other featuring private investigator Lena Padgett. Flashpoint, the first Sonora Blair mystery, was a New York Times Notable Book. Satan’s Lambs, the first Lena Padget mystery, won the Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel

The electrifying 2nd book in Lynn Hightower’s futuristic crime series . Interesting settings, intriguing ideas, fascinating characters a high level of suspense! -Turret.

The electrifying 2nd book in Lynn Hightower’s futuristic crime series plunges big-city cop David Silver into a nasty interstellar war. Saigo City police detective David Silver and his partner Mel Burnett have been called to an unusual crime scene: a bed where 4 Elaki pouchlings have been smothered in critical condition. Author Lynn Hightower pulls out all the stops in this multi-layered thriller about hate, fear, and the limits of motherly love.

Free books to read or listen online in a convenient form, a large collection, the best authors and series. In this bone-chilling tale of terror from Shamus Award-winning thriller writer Lynn Hightower, a devoted mother must confront the paranormal forces that have cursed her familyWhen Olivia James receives a phone call just after midnight, she recognizes her brother's voice. But there's a problem: her brother has been dead for the past nine weeks.

by. Hightower, Lynn S. Publication date. Books for People with Print Disabilities. Internet Archive Books.

Something had clearly changed. Still, she was coming out. That had to be significant. I systematically worked down my father’s list. d my walk I would just keep the house. Maybe I would live in Pasadena for a while. At this point anything was possible. Kailamai flew in from Spokane on Thursday night around six. Kailamai was the young woman I had rescued from a group of men just outside of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.

High-Rise is a 1975 novel by British writer J. G. Ballard. The story describes the disintegration of a luxury high-rise building as its affluent residents gradually descend into violent chaos. As with Ballard's previous novels Crash (1973) and Concrete Island (1974), High-Rise inquires into the ways in which modern social and technological landscapes could alter the human psyche in provocative and hitherto unexplored ways. It was adapted into a film of the same name, in 2015, by director Ben Wheatley.

A suspenseful and chilling tale of a family undone by a mother's mysterious death and a father's startling secrets.Beaufort, South Carolina, is home to the Smallwoods, a family that appears close-knit but is in fact deeply at odds. The youngest sibling, Georgie, is consumed with anger at her father, Fielding, an unforgiving ex-marine, whose involvement in a notorious scandal many years earlier cast a shadow over his career and the Smallwood name. A fierce patriarch, Fielding neglects Georgie's mother; belittles her brother, Ashby; and denies her sister, Claire, the financial support she needs after a trying divorce. When her mother dies suddenly and of mysterious causes, Georgie immediately suspects that her father was somehow involved.As she works to convince Ashby and Claire of her suspicions, however, their father is murdered, and Claire is implicated in his death. Georgie desperately attempts to piece together both her family and her personal life, but the evidence of their father's betrayal and the secrets of his past threaten to leave the Smallwood family in ruin.As affecting as it is suspenseful, High Water infuses a harrowing mystery with an intensely personal study of the delicate, complex bonds that define a family. Lynn Hightower's most successful book yet, High Water, packs a powerful combination of intrigue and insight.

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Loved the book, arrived before expected

Ddilonyne

Don't read this book if you're looking for a cheer-up. Hightower writes about yet another dysfunctional southern family. The heroine, Georgie, has escaped to her own antique shop; her sister is charmingly in her own world; her brother is gay. Georgie had a baby at the age of sixteen, a son who is now sixteen himself, and who has disappeared for the last two years.
The family comes together after their mother dies under mysterious circumstances and Georgie suspects their father was responsible. Their father, while not typically abusive, could be cruel; his life has been directed by a stint in the Marine Corps, where he met men who would influence the rest of his life.
Although the story is a suspenseful page-turner, we don't learn the story until the last few pages, when everything comes together. We get a sense of "Yes, now it all makes sense."
Yet in the end three people are dead and two were innocent of anything except getting caught up too deeply in the family struggles. One was implicated, falsely, in a murder.
Among novels of dysfunctional families and psychological suspense, High Water ranks as one of the best. Unfortunately, I had just picked up Sacrament of Lies by Elizabeth Dewberry, which has a similar theme -- heroine wondering if father killed mother -- but is not as plausible, deep or well-written. After reading the two in sequence, I began to wonder if this isn't some new sub-genre, just as child and wife abuse was a theme a few years ago.
If you have to choose, read this one.

Shak

I'm a big fan of the Sonora Blair books, and I live in Cincinnati where they are set, so I was doubly concerned that Lynn Hightower's newest book was not a Sonora Blair book.
Wow, were my socks knocked off by this book! A dysfunctional Southern family could be such a cliche or very trite, but Hightower pulls it off without going either way. Her characters have depth and humanity -- and you find yourself really rooting for them. Even when that means for them to do something really messed up <grin>.
High Water takes Hightower from a formidable mystery author to a serious character-driven author with a mystery involved (think James Lee Burke). If you're hesitant because you love the Blair books, go ahead and read High Water. If you haven't read any of Hightower's previous books, this one will hook you on her writing, and you can go back and read the Sonora Blair books.

Ishnllador

After leaving the marines due to an exercise scandal leaving seven soldiers dead, former drill Sergeant Fielding Smallwood accompanied by his family relocates in Beaufort, South Carolina. Fielding almost immediately starts an affair with a local widow even as his wife Lena is dying. His adult children detest Fielding, who has treated his family like he did his units, but feels they are his failures. His son Hank returns home after doing the worst deed by going AWOL two years ago. His youngest daughter Claire is a loser divorcee with three children. His other son Ashby is an unacceptable gay. Finally, Fielding blames all his trouble on his fourth child Georgie.

They become even angrier with him when, without consulting his four adult children, Fielding has his spouse taken off life-support. As the children commiserate with one another, they all wish Fielding was dead. They got what they asked for as someone murders the former marine. Law enforcement believes that one or more of his chidlren committed the crime with Claire being the one arrested. This leaves it up to Georgie to uncover the truth because she cannot accept that brittle Claire had the iron to kill anyone.

HIGH WATER is more than just a fast-paced amateur sleuth mystery. The story line focuses on a dysfunctional southern family struggling with self-images and interrelationships, of which none of the siblings seem capable of maintaining. The story line is fast-paced as expected from a Lynn Hightower tale, but the plot clearly belongs to the Smallwood family, as the author strips their souls bare for the audience to understand them inside a strong mystery.

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Delari

Excuse me, but aren't most all families somewhat dysfunctional? That's what makes Southern writers so intriguing and all of us Southerners so fascinating....our shameless ability to admit to and share our dysfunction with the world.
I loved this bittersweet, melancholy tale of a family in crisis. Hightower has the basics of family dynamics down to an art in this tale of three siblings who have to deal with the apparent suicide of their mother and the murder of their mean, controlling, ex-military father. I read this one in a day and loved the surprise ending. I highly recommend all of Hightower's books!

Ericaz

Lynn Hightower has written a number of books of police / detective fiction. This book is a departure from that regime in that the protagonists are siblings who are suddenly confronted with the death, possibly murder, or their mother and father. This gives decidedly a different colour to the murder story. Interwoven with the mystery are the threads of the family dynamics between the siblings and that of the main character's runaway son.

In all, this is a well written book, and it fully kept my attention. I just wish Hightower had handled the ending slightly differently.

Saithi

I was initially disappointed to find that I had not purchased a Sonora Blair novel, but immediately was taken in by the easy writing style of Lynn Hightower. I love her short chapters, twists and turns, and interesting characters. Miss Hightower never lets you down at the end of her books and I was shocked as I read the last chapter. WOW.

I love Lynn Hightower's writing. She is one of my most favorite writers. After reading Debt Collector I couldn't wait for another "Senora" book but I really liked High Water.
High Water is high-grade entertainment from beginning to the end. Another great story from Ms. Hightower!

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