Synopsis:

When Michelle Trutor escapes her violent domestic life for the Wharton home, she plans to write a biography of the deceased matriarch, Caroline.  But Caroline has left a web of riddles as guides to a secretive and nefarious life.  Trutor & the Ballooonist is a playful, engrossing, and suspenseful first novel about family, legacy, and inheritance, written with tremendous affection for its cast of offbeat survivors.

 "In Trutor & the Balloonist, Debbie Lee Wesselmann cross-pollinates contemporary realism with Daphne DuMaurier-like intrigue.  The resulting hybrid makes for fascinating reading.  I was hooked!"  -- Wally Lamb 

"Riddle me this.  What has the clues of Raymond Chandler, the allegories of Lewis Carroll, and the quirky characters of Anne Tyler?  This book."  -- Booklist 

"You'll want to portion out chapters as rewards to yourself . . . This story has a ton of heart." -- The Bloomsbury Review 

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Topics/Categories:

Abuse, Biography, cross-genre fiction, Families, Family secrets, Feminism, Mystery, New England, New Hampshire, riddles

Genre:

Literary Fiction

Type of Work:

Novel

Publishers:

MacAdam/Cage Publishing, Inc.

Awards:

Top Ten Small Press Book of 1997: Amazon.com

ISBNs:

1-878448-74-9

Formats:

Hardcover