Gretchen Walters made a name for herself as the author of Tammyland, a memoir that talked about her divorce and her love of female country music icons that was called a "honky-tonk Eat, Pray, Love" by the reviewers. Her next book was supposed to be a follow-up concentrating on the men of country music, but instead she starts exploring more of her past. She was raised by her aunt and uncle as their own, but she always knew her birth mother if not her birth father. Her birth mother's murder when Gretchen was 8 was never quite solved. The man thought responsible was found not guilty, and no other suspect was identified. While digging into the past, Gretchen is killed in a fall that is thought to be an accident.
Her best friend from college, Jaime, is asked by Gretchen's family to organize her notes to see if the original book idea can be published. As Jamie sorts through Gretchen's computer and notebooks, she becomes engrossed in learning more about her friend and the secrets she discovered.
This looked to be an easy, mindless beach read, but I was wrong. The chapters alternate between excerpts from the fictional book Tammyland, Gretchen's interviews and Jamie's narrative. Maybe it's just me, but sometimes it was hard to keep that straight. All in all, though, it was a good story with a fair amount of intrigue and reflection.
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