Review: Disturbing the Dark by Wendy Hornsby

A Mysterious Review of Disturbing the Dark by Wendy Hornsby. A Maggie MacGowen Mystery.

Review summary: The small, rural village setting in Normandy, France makes for a perfect backdrop to this multi-faceted murder investigation that may have a link to the past, giving the story a kind of Agatha Christie feel to it. This change of venue coupled with a solidly-developed plot make this a most enjoyable entry in this series. (Click here for text of full review.)

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Disturbing the Dark
Wendy Hornsby
A Maggie MacGowen Mystery
Perseverance Press (March 2016)

Publisher synopsis: Maggie MacGowen, an investigative filmmaker, is in Normandy with a film crew to document the agricultural four seasons on her ancestral family farm. An accidentally excavated skull causes a social media sensation, dredging up psychic scars left by the wartime German Occupation.

In their youth, Grand-mere and other villagers had cut the throats of an entire brutal Nazi platoon. Now the grim discovery prompts tourists, the soldiers' descendants, the mass media, and vulturelike war-memorabilia dealers to flock to the formerly quiet farm.

Then a young woman is murdered …