Also by Jack Teeter:
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- It's Me Again, Lord
- Birdman
- Outer Banks Robber
- Billy The Kid
- Living on a PEG
- Coop
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Published: Jan. 22, 2013
Words: 58,299 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781301857685
Short description
Karleen's summer job at the fair as the sexy fortuneteller 'Virgin Karleen' takes an encouraging turn when she gets the opportunity to flaunt her wiles for Joe Peters. Joe is a returning WW II pilot with a bright future as an Air Corps officer. Karleen imagines romance, travel, and adventure…Extended description
Karleen's summer job at the fair as the sexy fortuneteller 'Virgin Karleen' takes an encouraging turn when she gets the opportunity to flaunt her wiles for Joe Peters. Joe is a returning WW II pilot with a bright future as an Air Corps officer. Karleen imagines romance, travel, and adventure…Life in a trailer home, parked in the back pasture of Joe's parents' farm, does not fulfill Karleen's dreams. Are infidelity, murder and the bitter realities of survival in post-WW II rural New York State to be Karleen's fate? For an entire generation it would seem so, as brother-in-law Tom's romantic intentions are lost on the long-grieving Karleen. Her only concern is for her daughter.
But Tom won’t give up without a fight—and one final curse from the mysterious Karleen.
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mystery, murder mystery, murder romance, hoochie coochie, postwwii, rural new yorkAvailable ebook reading formats
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Review by:
Karin Duncan-Smyth
on Feb. 02, 2013 :
Heartaches by the number
Karleen is just a kid; a beautiful, sexy, kid -- but still, just a kid. Then she meets up again with Tom. Tom, his brother Joe, and Karleen all went to school together. A lot has happened since then.
Tom is a car mechanic and races motorcycles. Joe has just returned from WW II and is an Army Air Corps officer candidate. Karleen is a hoochie-koochie girl at the county fair -- just through the summer -- who starts college in the fall.
Karleen looks outside and sees Tom waiting in line for his private séance with 'Virgin Karleen'. "I cannot tell your fortune, Thomas…" she tells him. Instead, she gives Tom a secret message to pass along to his brother Joe: 'Meet me behind the tent after the show'.
Karleen imagines romance, travel, and maybe a child or two as the wife of a WW II veteran and USAF officer! What she gets is life in a trailer on a dirt-poor upstate New York farm.
Violence, infidelity and even murder await this new family trio. And through it all Tom patiently waits for his chance for romance with the lovely 'Virgin Karleen'.
Jack Teeter knows how to craft a great story!
(reviewed within a week of purchase)