FICTION

The Bullet

by Mary Louise Kelly
Gallery. Mar. 2015. 368p. ISBN 9781476769813. $26; ebk. ISBN 9781476769844. F
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Caroline Cashion, a successful professor at Georgetown University, has a great life and family until a visit to the doctor to address her wrist problem reveals that her nerve pain is the result of a dormant bullet in her skull. In rapid succession, Caroline learns that she was adopted at the age of three, after her parents were murdered, and a bullet from that event has been lodged in her head for more than 30 years. Within the week, Caroline travels to Atlanta to learn about her parents, finds herself in need of urgent surgery to remove the bullet, and begins to fall for her handsome primary care physician.
VERDICT As the title suggests, former NPR correspondent Kelly's (Anonymous Sources) latest thriller is a fast-moving narrative. Though not especially well written (Caroline engages in sporadic, colloquial first-person statements to the reader), the plot is engaging and the characters interesting. Fans of the author, Pamela Thomas-Graham, and Tess Gerritsen will spend a couple of enjoyable hours reading this.
Reviewed by Nicole A. Cooke, GSLIS, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , Feb 20, 2015
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