Review: My Sister's Grave by Robert Dugoni

A Mysterious Review of My Sister's Grave by Robert Dugoni. A Legal Thriller.

Review summary: The overall theme here is that the law, and the process of law, isn't nearly as black and white as most would like to believe, with a vast gray area in the middle open to interpretation and manipulation. A superb whodunit start to finish, this legal thriller is highly recommended. (Click here for text of full review.)

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My Sister's Grave
Robert Dugoni
A Legal Thriller
Thomas & Mercer (November 2014)

Publisher synopsis: Tracy Crosswhite has spent twenty years questioning the facts surrounding her sister Sarah's disappearance and the murder trial that followed. She doesn't believe that Edmund House — a convicted rapist and the man condemned for Sarah's murder — is the guilty party. Motivated by the opportunity to obtain real justice, Tracy became a homicide detective with the Seattle PD and dedicated her life to tracking down killers.

When Sarah's remains are finally discovered near their hometown in the northern Cascade mountains of Washington State, Tracy is determined to get the answers she's been seeking. As she searches for the real killer, she unearths dark, long-kept secrets that will forever change her relationship to her past — and open the door to deadly danger.

    

City of Liars and Thieves, A Historical Mystery by Eve Karlin, New This Week from Alibi

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We've selected one of their recently published titles to feature here today …

City of Liars and Thieves by Eve Karlin

A Historical Mystery

Publisher: Alibi

Price: $2.99 (as of 01/16/2015 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

It is high time to tell the truth. Time for justice … How she was murdered and why she haunts me. It is not only Elma's story, it's mine.

On the bustling docks of the Hudson River, Catherine Ring waits with her husband and children for the ship carrying her cousin, Elma Sands. Their Greenwich Street boardinghouse becomes a haven for Elma, who has at last escaped the stifling confines of her small hometown and the shameful circumstances of her birth. But in the summer of 1799, Manhattan remains a teeming cesspool of stagnant swamps and polluted rivers. The city is desperate for clean water as fires wreak devastation and the death toll from yellow fever surges.

Political tensions are rising, too. It's an election year, and Alexander Hamilton is hungry for power. So is his rival, Aaron Burr, who has announced the formation of the Manhattan Water Company. But their private struggle becomes very public when the body of Elma Sands is found at the bottom of a city well built by Burr's company.

Resolved to see justice done, Catherine becomes both witness and avenger. She soon finds, however, that the shocking truth behind this trial has nothing to do with guilt or innocence.

— City of Liars and Thieves by Eve Karlin

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Unmarked Grave, An Ardis Cole Mystery by Vickie Britton and Loretta Jackson, Now Available at a Special Price

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Unmarked Grave by Vickie Britton and Loretta Jackson

An Ardis Cole Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Rowe Publishing

Price: $0.99 (as of 01/16/2015 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

Ardis Cole travels to Scotland to do a facial reconstruction on a skull her friend Bruce McBrier has discovered in the woods outside his ancestral castle. Because of an ancient ax buried in the skull, Bruce presumes the skull to be a historical relic, possibly the remains of a medieval ancestor murdered in battle.

When Ardis makes the shocking discovery that the remains are that of a more recent murder, Constable Mark Ridley asks her help in going ahead with the facial reconstruction in hopes the victim can be identified.

But someone is willing to go to great lengths … even murder … to keep the skull's deadly secret.

— Unmarked Grave by Vickie Britton and Loretta Jackson

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Butterfly Kills by Brenda Chapman, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during January 2015

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during January 2015 …

Butterfly Kills by Brenda Chapman, A Stonechild and Rouleau Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Dundurn

  

Two separate crimes, two tragic outcomes …

Jacques Rouleau has moved to Kingston to look after his father and take up the position of head of the town's Criminal Investigations Division. One hot week in late September, university student Leah Sampson is murdered in her apartment. In another corner of the city, Della Munroe is raped by her husband. At first the crimes appear unrelated, but as Sergeant Rouleau and his new team of officers dig into the women's pasts, they discover unsettling coincidences. When Kala Stonechild, one of Rouleau's former officers from Ottawa, suddenly appears in Kingston, Rouleau enlists her to help.

Stonechild isn't sure if she wants to stay in Kingston, but agrees to help Rouleau in the short-term. While she struggles with trying to decide if she can make a life in this new town, a ghost from her past starts to haunt her.

As the detectives delve deeper into the cases, it seems more questions pop up than answers. Who murdered Leah Sampson? And why does Della Monroe's name keep showing up in the murder investigation? Both women were hiding secrets that have unleashed a string of violence. Stonechild and Rouleau race to discover the truth before the violence rips more families apart.

— Butterfly Kills by Brenda Chapman

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Unseen, A Novel of Suspense by James Pence, Now Available at a Special Price

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Unseen by James Pence

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Mountainview Books

Price: $0.99 (as of 01/16/2015 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

Where is Justine Bishop? And why did she abandon her children? Thomas Kent is determined to find out …

Asked to pick up a "package" at the airport by an old friend he barely remembers, Thomas is shocked when he finds two desperate children looking to him for help. As he's reluctantly drawn into the murderous plot of a ruthless cult, Thomas is forced to come face-to-face with his own torturous guilt over the tragic loss of his family and faith.

Why does the cult so desperately want the kids? Their mother, Justine Bishop, holds the key. He just has to find her … or die trying.

— Unseen by James Pence

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