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l loved the way the plot intricately weaves together there’s far more to this story than you can imagine.
There are some good twists, and while Emily’s case is resolved, I was left with a few unanswered questions. This was a multi-layered mystery with many twists and turns, and as always, Karin pulled the rug out from under me many times.Andrea is partnered with an older Marshall, Leonard ‘Catfish’ Bible, who delights in educating his new green partner.
It broke my heart to see that the only person Emily could ever turn to was her grandmother, who suffered from dementia. There were also some elements to her backstory that weren’t fully explored, however, I think these might have been contained in ‘Pieces of Her’ which I hadn’t realised was the first book in the series. Having been in jail for the last thirty three years he now has a chance of parole at his next hearing, unless he can be charged with further crimes. It’s not exactly the kind of violence you may be expecting from the author of Pretty Girls or The Good Daughter, but more akin to Slaughter’s other historical crime novel, Cop Town. When another girl is found dead by suicide and looks like she has been starved, Andrea begins to investigate it and finds a cult tied to the clique 40 years later.Using this new discipline she starts to unravel this murder mystery that has hung over the town of Longbill Beach for nearly four decades but in doing so, a Pandora’s Box is revealed. Well written as you get to expect with the author but for me personally just didn’t grip me as her books normally do. S. Marshal Andrea Oliver, assigned to her first federal case: the protection of a federal judge receiving death threats. Under the guise of an official assignment, Oliver is to head to Longbill Beach, Delaware and investigate the forty-year-old murder of teenager Emily Vaughn in 1982.