Maddie introduces herself by her pen name, and is caught off-guard by how charming and attractive Mick is.ĭespite sharing some entertaining banter, Maddie knows a relationship between them is entirely inappropriate and she tries to focus on her investigation into the murder-suicide, with limited results.
Mick has a reputation for more than just fighting, womanizing, and his military service - it was his mother who walked into that bar and murdered his father, along with the woman he was cheating with, before committing suicide. When she uncovers some old journals of her mother's after her great-aunt's death, Maddie decides to travel back to Truly and see if she can't give herself some closure by turning the experience into a book.įirst on her list of things to do is a trip to Mort's, one of Truly's bars, to meet with the owner, Mick Hennessy. Raised by an elderly great-aunt, Maddie learned how to take care of herself and while she enjoys the life she has, she can't help but wonder how things might have turned out differently if her mother hadn't been murdered. The mistress, a twenty-four-year-old waitress named Alice, had a young daughter named Maddie, who grew up to be a successful true crime writer in Boise. Twenty-nine years ago, in the small town of Truly, Idaho, a fed-up housewife entered her husband's bar with a shotgun and shot him and his mistress dead, and then turned the gun on herself. The central plot element of Tangled Up In You is incredibly dark, and could have gone in any number of wrong directions, but Gibson makes you take it for what it is - something that can't be solved or explained away, but can provide an interesting character drama between two different - and yet similar - characters. The Word: This is my first Rachel Gibson novel, but I gotta say, this author's got guts. Maddie: Wait, wait, I have to tell you - your mom killed my mom, back in the day. Mick: Well, hello ther- wait, are you writing a book about me? Dammit, you're still hawt! Let's get it on! Mick: I just want to get over my past as the son of a murdering psycho!
Maddie: I just want to write a book about my mother who was murdered by a psycho!
The Rub: So why does he find her so damn attractive?
He moved back to Truly with only two goals in mind - to forget his parents' sordid past, and take care of his unstable sister and her son, but nosy true crime writer Maddie Dupree seriously threatens the first of his goals. The Rub: She doesn't think she's the type to fall head over heels in love, much less with the son of the people responsible for her mother's death. When she heads to the town of Truly, Idaho, to write a book about how her mother died, she thinks she's strong enough to handle the past. "Maddie Dupree." Growing up pretty much on her own turned Maddie into a successful woman who knows how to take care of herself.
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