Play Dead

Description:

Laura falls in love with Boston Celtic's star player, David Baskin. On their honeymoon in Australia he drowns in a freak accident. Now that the funeral is over, Laura is finding clues that make her think that David's accident was no accident. Everyone around her is acting strangely and Laura doesn't know who to trust as she tries to uncover the truth.

subjects: Married people, fiction,  Missing persons, fiction,  Fiction, thrillers, general,  nyt:mass-market-paperback=2010-10-17,  New York Times bestseller,  Fiction,  Widows,  Models (Persons),  Basketball players,  Fiction, thrillers, suspense,  Widows, fiction,  Boston (mass.), fiction,  Conspiracies,  Married people,  Interpersonal relations,  Suspense fiction,  Missing persons,  Trust,  American literature,  Andy Carpenter (Fictitious character),  Trials (Murder),  Attorney and client,  Impostors and imposture,  Boston Celtics (Basketball team)

People: Laura Ayars (fictional character),  David Baskin (fictional character),  Sinclair Baskin (fictional character),  Judy Simmons (fictional character),  Mary Simmons Ayars (fictional character),  James Ayars (fictional character),  Gloria Ayars (fictional character),  Terry "T.C." Conroy (fictional character),  Serita (fictional character),  Stan Baskin (fictional character),  Mark Seidman (fictional character)

Places: Boston (Mass.),  Palm Cove (Qld.),  Cairns (Qld.),  Hamilton (N.Y.),  Chicago (Ill.),  New Jersey

Times: 1960,  1989