MARY ELIZABETH GOLDMAN

Rich in both rowdy and big-city sophistication, Dallas is a city of paradox. It’s a city with attitude where men don’t walk, they “stride,” and women with “big hair” speak with a distinct drawl because to want to. It’s a city that has experienced, endured, thrived, and even capitalized on the scars of assassinations, protests, and murder.

To Love and Die in Dallas unfolds through the pages of an ill-gotten diary that recalls the teenage years of four best friends. It was a time of innocence, when Dallas teenagers were bopping at the sock-hops to the tunes of Buddy Holly and Jerry Lee Lewis, cruising around White Rock Lake, and hanging out at the drive-in on Garland Road. But time changed everything.

It is now the twenty-first century, and those carefree teenagers are the power players in Dallas. The death of one of the friends, Lindsey Rose Mitchell, wife of U.S. Senator James “Buddy” Mitchell, turns Dallas high society upside down. Lindsey’s funeral brings the three surviving best friends together again. They vow to find out what really happened. But some stones are best left unturned. As their suspect list grows, their investigation descends deep into Dallas’s underbelly and into crevices where they each harbor dark, deadly secrets. Secrets they thought would never be revealed.