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By Carrie La Seur

ISBN: 0062323466

Publication Date:  07/29/14

Publisher: Harper Audio

Format:  Audio

My Rating:  4 Stars 

THE HOME PLACE, by Carrie La Seur, a riveting, powerful, and emotional debut novel about one family’s heritage of love, loss, and forgiveness.

Attorney Alma Terrebonne is wound tight, organized, and highly professional with a successful career in Seattle as an attorney. She left her home town of Billings, Montana years ago and never wanted to look back, as it hold too many unpleasant memories.

When she receives a call about her younger troubled sister, Vicky found dead, she is flooded with guilt over their past relationship. Her sister has cried wolf so many times in the past, with everyone rushing to her defense.

Alma has to face the truth about her broken family (Pete, Alma, and Vicky). They lost their parents when Vicky was only twelve, Pete was military with a drinking problem, and Alma at age seventeen could not take care of her siblings. The aunt and uncle raised Vicky until she became pregnant as a teen and moved in with her boyfriend with drugs, alcohol, and all sorts of money problems, with a hard life. Alma feels so much guilt and despair; however, she had to escape in order to save herself.

She rushes back home to the small rural town, to help take care of Vicki’s 11 yr. old daughter, Brittany and begins to look into her sister’s death. Things do not add up and she suspects it may not have been an accident, after all. Alma also has feelings for Chance, her first love and finds herself being drawn back to the place she tried so hard to forget.

A gripping bittersweet journey of murder, secrets, suspense, romance, home, family and self-discovery. I enjoyed La Seur’s writing style with honesty and compassion; however, I listened to the audiobook and narrator, Andrus Nichols was very bland, which may have adversely affected my overall rating of the book.

However, highly recommend THE HOME PLACE, and look forward to reading more from this newfound and talented author!