A Mysterious Review of Heart of Stone by James W. Ziskin. An Ellie Stone Mystery.
Review summary: This mystery is set in the early 1960s and involves the deaths of two men who have only a most tenuous connection between them. Though a little slow going at first, the storyline features a cast of well-developed characters and a tightly woven plot with plenty of twists and turns that makes for an exciting, interesting read. (Click here for text of full review.)
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Heart of Stone
James W. Ziskin
An Ellie Stone Mystery
Seventh Street Books (June 2016)
Publisher synopsis: In the waning days of a lazy August holiday, Ellie Stone is enjoying a bright Adirondack-lake morning. Nearby, two men plummet to their deaths on the rocks below, just a few feet short of the water of a dangerous diving pool. A tragic accident, it seems. But the state police quickly establish that the two victims — one, a stranger to the lake and, the other, a teenaged boy from a nearby music camp — surely didn't know each other. That anomaly is strange enough, but what really perplexes Ellie is the out-of-place station wagon parked twenty yards from the edge of the cliff.
Wading into a slippery morass of fellow travelers, free-love intellectuals, rabid John Birchers, and charismatic evangelicals, Ellie must navigate old grudges and Cold War passions, lost ideals and betrayed loves. She sticks her nose where it's unwanted, rattling nerves and putting herself in jeopardy. But this time, it's her heart that's at risk.
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