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One of my favorite things to do is spend time in the mystery section of my local bookstore. I pull a dozen or so books from the shelf and read the first two to three pages to see which opening scene captures my attention. Recently, I pulled A.J. Finn’s The Woman in the Window and … wow! His writing captivated me from the first sentence and the unique voice of his character kept me reading. The story was fast-paced with an excellent twist at the end. The Woman in the Window was more than a good story, it was...[read on]About Fractured Truth, from the publisher:
When the mutilated remains of a young woman are found in an Appalachian Mountain cave, newly sworn-in deputy sheriff Brynn Callahan is forced to track down a killer driven by twisted motives...Visit Susan Furlong's website.
Not long after donning the uniform of the McCreary County Sheriff's department in Bone Gap, Tennessee, ex-Marine Brynn Callahan faces her first official homicide. On a cold February morning, a lone cross-country skier stumbles across the mutilated body of a young woman.Sent to investigate, Brynn is shocked when she recognizes the victim as a fellow Traveller, Maura Keene.
Maura held a solid standing both within the Travellers’ insular community and among the settled townspeople—a fact that makes her murder all the more disturbing to Brynn, who also straddles the two worlds. After her trained K-9, Wilco, digs up human bones, and then a scrap of paper scrawled with arcane Latin phrases is uncovered, Brynn finds evidence leading her to question those closest to her—and closing the case becomes a deeply personal matter.
While trying to suppress local superstitions and prejudices, Brynn discovers that Maura was keeping a dangerous secret. And as the bones Wilco found are analyzed by forensics, Brynn harbors the troubling suspicion that she knows who they belong to. Still struggling with PTSD, Brynn must put her career on the line and her life at risk to find justice for a woman not unlike herself—haunted by her past, and caught in a vicious cycle she may never escape...
My Book, The Movie: Splintered Silence.
The Page 69 Test: Splintered Silence.
Writers Read: Susan Furlong.
--Marshal Zeringue
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