A Mysterious Review of No Stone Unturned by James W. Ziskin. An Ellie Stone Mystery.
Review summary: Structurally, there isn't anything surprising with how the plot of this murder mystery unfolds, but the pace is nearly perfect and there are enough twists and turns in the path the lead character takes to keep it all interesting for the reader. (Click here for text of full review.)
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No Stone Unturned
James W. Ziskin
An Ellie Stone Mystery
Seventh Street Books (June 2014)
Publisher synopsis: A dead girl in the woods. Three little oil spots on the dirt road. A Dr. Pepper bottle cap in the shallow grave. And a young reporter, armed with nothing but a camera.
Evening is falling on a wet, gray, autumn day in upstate New York. Ellie Stone, twenty-four-year-old reporter for a small local daily, stands at a crossroads in her career and in her life. Alone in the world, battling her own losses and her own demons, Ellie is ready to pack it in and return to New York a failure. Then she hears the dispatch over the police scanner.
A hunter, tramping through a muddy wood north of the small town of New Holland, has tripped over the body of a twenty-one-year-old society girl half-buried in the leaves. Ellie is the first reporter on the scene. The investigation provides a rare opportunity to rescue her drowning career, but all leads seem to die on the vine, until Ellie takes a daring chance that unleashes unintended chaos.
Wading through a voyeuristic tangle of small-town secrets, she makes some desperate enemies, who want her off the case. Dead if necessary.
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