Summary of Karen Kingsbury's Deadly Pretender

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#1 On September 15, 1991, Jayne Miller drove to her parents’ house in Sanford and announced she was moving back to Los Angeles. She had learned that her husband, David Miller, was a bigamist. He had two wives.

#2 Jayne was going to press charges against her husband, and she was going to move back to Los Angeles. She was going to put his things outside the storage unit she had rented, or have them hauled to the dump.

#3 Jayne knew David well enough to know that he was no longer the confident, self-centered liar he had once been. He was a broken man now, and in her opinion no longer a threat to her or anyone else.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jul 14, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822547254

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

On September 15, 1991, Jayne Miller drove to her parents’ house in Sanford and announced she was moving back to Los Angeles. She had learned that her husband, David Miller, was a bigamist. He had two wives.

#2

Jayne was going to press charges against her husband, and she was going to move back to Los Angeles. She was going to put his things outside the storage unit she had rented, or have them hauled to the dump.

#3

Jayne knew David well enough to know that he was no longer the confident, self-centered liar he had once been. He was a broken man now, and in her opinion no longer a threat to her or anyone else.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The mind can be led and directed by a sociopathic psyche, which is capable of committing acts that make headlines all over the country. The more lies you tell, the more fear you feel, and the less you care about being caught.

#2

Fear had become a living, breathing entity in David Miller’s life by September 1991. It traveled with him on airplane trips, and it slept next to him at night. It laughed at him and taunted him in the mirror each morning.

Insights from Chapter 3

#1

David Miller was a teenager in the late 1960s who was extremely involved in many activities. He could not stand boredom, and in a small town like Sardis, boredom was almost an epidemic.

#2

David had a habit of stretching the truth. He would say whatever was necessary to get what he wanted, and he would often lie about his past. But his lies were brilliant, and he enjoyed freedom more than anything else.

Insights from Chapter 4

#1

When David left Sardis for the university, he was free at last from the status quo there. He was able to make choices, but he was still indecisive. He spent hours thinking through a scenario before he lied about it, because people trusted him.

#2

By his sophomore year, David had found the perfect arena for his considerable talent of twisting the truth in a trustworthy manner: politics. He was popular beyond any of his expectations, and he thrived on the power. He never had any doubt what he would do once he graduated from Ohio University: become a senator or congressman.

#3

In 1978, David moved to Los Angeles and began working on his political career there. He knew that the