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In the Spirit of Murder |
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 In the Spirit of Murder byLaura Belgrave Overmountain Press 204 pages, 2000 ISBN 1570721246 Reviewed by Nancy Mehl Read our interview with the author "Detective Lieutenant Claudia Hershey stood with her hands in her jacket pockets and looked at the woman on the kitchen floor. Sometimes dead people looked like they were only napping. An eyelid would appear to move. Lips might twitch. You’d know they were dead, but still they’d play some trick or another, just enough to make you suck in your breath. Not this woman. Her face had been obliterated along with her last breath. Blood was her pillow." Detective Lieutenant Claudia Hershey left her home in Cleveland to live the kind of life that Norman Rockwell painted. She thought that Indian Run, Florida would provide the type of all-American existence that she wanted for herself and her 13 year-old daughter, Robin. But instead of living her dream, Claudia had stumbled into a horrifying nightmare. Indian Run, home to several "so-called" psychics, is cold, unfriendly and decidedly dangerous. Someone is killing the town’s psychic citizens. Claudia is faced with finding the answer to the bizarre murders, while dealing with a small police department full of "good-old-boys" who resent having a woman detective interfere with their comfortable back-woods way of life. After the scene of the first murder is compromised by the bumbling of fellow officers not used to dealing with murder in their small town, Claudia fights to get control of the deadly situation before the killer strikes again. The chief of police decides that he knows who the murderer is, but Claudia is not convinced. During her investigation, another one of the town’s psychics gives her a message that doesn’t make much sense to the skeptical detective. Besides a couple of vague clues to the identity of the killer, she also warns Claudia that danger lurks ahead for Robin. Will Claudia find out who is behind the killings before her daughter steps into his blood-thirsty rampage? Even the psychic can’t see the answer to this deadly question. In the Spirit of Murder is the first novel by Laura Belgrave. I’m certain it won’t be the last. This heart-stopping story is one of the best new novels I’ve come across. |
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