What Mom & Dad Never Told Us

Mom died in a car accident when the Moorhouse siblings (now in their 50s) were teenagers. But was it really an accident? Something about what they've been told doesn't seem right.

Dad willed them secret hoards of collectibles when he died 10 years ago, among them a 146-page unfinished manuscript. What was so compelling for him to write about, and why did he abandon it?

Caroline, David, and Juliana Moorhouse (now in their 50s) look for answers to these age-old mysteries. Evidence is scarce and very cold. Their efforts stall then lurch forward. It’s guesswork at best. Or is it?

“What if her death wasn’t an accident?” Caroline said. “What if it was somehow connected to where she was going or what she was carrying? What if she didn’t really die from the crash but from someone who caused it? No personal belongings found in the car means her purse was missing. That makes everything a bit hard to explain. Shouldn’t that be of interest to us?”

“It should be, and we should definitely be doing something about it,” David said, “even if we’re 40 years too late.”

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Discovery of hidden architect's drawings leads them to a museum their mom built.

She'd never mentioned it to them. Why not?

Bar gossip suggests she had a job as a Night Courier, delivering packages anonymously from one place to another in the dead of night. Cash payment only. Another mystery.

But she'd kept detailed records. A box of old documents their dad saved offers mind-numbing tedium disguising scattered clues. Some pieces fit together … but do they lead anywhere?

And what does selling their fabulously successful family business
… and lending millions to other businesses that they can't spend
… and creating Monopoly online casino gambling have to do with it?

Maybe nothing.
Maybe they're just dead ends.
Or maybe they are necessary steps that give time for clues to settle and show the way.

Find out in the concluding novel of The Moorhouse Trilogy: What Mom & Dad Never Told Us.

Mic Lowther grew up in West Virginia, New Jersey, and Minnesota in the 40s and 50s, lived in New York and Arizona in the 60s, and then spent 35 years in Alaska. He has worked as a computer programmer and systems analyst for 62 years. Having failed retirement, he is still self-employed working with his brothers in the family business, first in Minnesota and now Kentucky. During that time, he backpacked 5,000 miles in 19 US states and Western Canada.

In 45 years of writing, he’s published two non-fiction adventure books (Walking North and Taking the Long Way Home), two books of children's adventure stories (Manford of MorningGlory Mountain, Books 1 and 2) and, most recently, the three novels of The Moorhouse Trilogy (Seventeen Parcels, The Unlikely Redemption of the Thief Sydney Bridgewater, and What Mom & Dad Never Told Us).