#JEANNE M DAMS SHADOWS OF DOUBT SERIES#
How does attempted murder sound?”įorget about solving all these crimes the signal triumph here is (spoiler) the heroine’s survival.īox takes another break from his highly successful Joe Pickett series ( Stone Cold, 2014, etc.) for a stand-alone about a police detective, a developmentally delayed boy, and a package everyone in North Dakota wants to grab.Ĭassandra Dewell can’t leave Montana’s Lewis and Clark County fast enough for her new job as chief investigator for Jon Kirkbride, sheriff of Bakken County. And why on earth was Vodyanov carrying Tempe’s own contact information? The mounting evidence of ever more and ever worse skulduggery will pull Tempe deeper and deeper down what even she sees as a rabbit hole before she confronts a ringleader implicated in “Drugs. government project to research biological agents that could control human behavior, the hinky spiritual retreat Sparkling Waters, the dark web site DeepUnder, and the disappearances of at least four schoolchildren, two of whom have also turned up dead. Before he died, it seems, Felix Vodyanov was linked to a passenger ferry that sank in 1994, an even earlier U.S. But the hints of other crimes Tempe’s identification uncovers, particularly crimes against children, spur her on to redouble her efforts despite the new M.E.’s splenetic outbursts. Heavner isn’t exactly mollified when Tempe, aided by retired police detective Skinny Slidell and a host of experts, puts a name to the dead man. Nettled by several errors in Heavner’s analysis, and even more by her willingness to share the gory details at a press conference, Tempe launches her own investigation, which is not so much off the books as against the books. Showboat Medical Examiner Margot Heavner makes it clear that, breaking with her department’s earlier practice ( The Bone Collection, 2016, etc.), she has no intention of calling in Tempe as a consultant and promptly identifies the faceless body herself as that of a young Asian man. To complicate matters still further, Norquist’s horror of a mother, who’s in a home suffering from mental problems, may hold the key to the mystery.ĭams extends her list of pleasant British cozies (Murder at the Castle, 2013, etc.) with another installment marked by her trademark local color and another solid mystery.Īnother sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.Ī week after the night she chases but fails to catch a mysterious trespasser outside her town house, some unknown party texts Tempe four images of a corpse that looks as if it’s been chewed by wild hogs, because it has been. When Norquist vanishes, the sleuths decide that he’s either a person of interest or the next victim. After Dorothy’s cleared of killing a feral cat, she finds the local women more than willing to talk. So he, Dorothy and even Watson start digging for information that might implicate someone else. Alan doesn’t fancy the farmer as the murderer despite the threats he made.
The local authorities, overwhelmed by a terrorist threat, ask Alan to look quietly into the murder.
When Carter is found dead at the dig and an accident is ruled out, the farmer is the first suspect. Carter, the wealthy, arrogant American who’s bankrolling it and Charles Norquist, the fanatically purist director of the Ancient Orkney Museum. But the fabulous finds at the dig on one of the smaller islands provoke disagreement among the farmer who lives there Robert Fairweather, the director of the dig Henry J. A recent Neolithic discovery proves fascinating to Dorothy, who was leery of the trip.
When their own car breaks down, they hire a plane and then a car to take them to the vacation apartment their potter friend Andrew has found for them. Retired Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt, his wife, Dorothy Martin, and their dog, Watson, arrive in Orkney in style. Welcome to the Orkney Islands, home to Stone Age excavations and a very modern murderer.
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