Dead Ringer

by Ken Douglas

Maggie Nesbitt is depressed beyond telling. She’d had a little too much to drink at a party a couple months back and wound up in a motel with a young man vacationing from Ireland. Now she’s pregnant and she’s reasonably sure her TV newsman husband, who’d had the snip, snip operation years earlier, because he’d wanted no children, won’t understand. While she’s shopping for dinner a couple rough looking strangers mistake her for somebody else. One of them said something about seeing her picture in the paper. Her interest piqued, she goes home and goes through all the back papers her husband had been saving in the garage and sure enough she sees her photo, only the woman on the page has a different. name She’s called Margo, not Maggie and Margo had been the name of the twin sister she’d always believed had perished when she was an infant. Excited she looks her up in the phone book and miraculously she’s listed. Maggie hot foots it over to Margo’s, runs into her twin’s ex who is a piece of work, he wants to take Jasmine, Margo’s daughter for the weekend, the daughter doesn’t want to go. Both mistake Maggie for Margo. Maggie bluffs, protects the girl and chases away the bad ex-hubby. Jasmine, who has been staying with a sitter, is surprised to see her mother, as she’s supposed to be on a religious retreat. Maggie plays along, Jasmine goes next door to play. Maggie turns on the tube and sees that Newsman Nick Nesbitt’s wife had been found murdered. Maggie gasps, that’s her, she’s dead, but of course she’s not, it was the twin. How? Why? Turns out the rough guys in the store had been hired to kill Maggie’s sister because she’d witnessed a murder. When they saw Maggie in the store they followed her and as luck would have it, the twins paths almost crossed. The killers grabbed and killed Margo and now Maggie who doesn’t know this yet is presented with a unique opportunity. She can have her baby and save Jasmine from going to live with her horrible father, all she has to do is step into Margo’s live, become her twin. However when Maggie who is now Margo, shows up the next day not dead, the killers are very, very upset.

Genres: Thriller

340 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

Reviews

[Gina *loves sunshine* · Rating 2 out of 5]

this was a basic little mystery, nothing special!

[Samm Seals · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a fun book. Made me pay attention. The bad guys are screwy but plenty bad.
The end is quite satisfactory!
Read in one day.

[Michael · Rating 3 out of 5]

I just discovered Ken Douglas and I have to be honest and say that I liked this book. It's light and fluffy and like junk food it's quite addicting. The action moves along briskly and you're instantly sucked into the story and while you know none of this could really happen you almost want to see Maggie succeede. By the end of the book you know the good guys win and the evil doers are dispensed of and every one lives happily ever after.

[Barbara Dunbar · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dead Ringer

I became involved with the characters from the beginning and just kept reading. I recommend this book to all who enjoy fast caring action from the person's in their books.