8 June 2006.
ISBN: 0-7387-0826-7
When Lily Caldwell died, she didn’t float above herself, or see a bright light or walk down a tunnel - she saw the face of her murderer. Unfortunately, when the doctors brought her back to life no one believed her. For she had identified Governor Robert ‘Nob’ Stevens as the murderer of her partner Danny Donovan and the attempted murder of herself. She didn’t blame anyone for not believing her and for Chief Pulizzi for firing her from the police force, but she did blame Grayson Caldwell for not sticking by her.
Thirty years old and jobless, Lily Caldwell sets out to prove Nob Stevens is a killer. She has just one piece of knowledge that the shooting had given her the name of a girl she didn’t know, a teacher who’d been dead for seventeen years: Emily Martin.
Told from multiple points of view the book switches effortlessly between the main characters, sending the story along at a cracking pace. Although we know the name of the perpetrator from the outset, there is of course a deep secret at the heart of the story, which as Lily nears puts her in the gravest danger from someone who must keep this secret at all costs.
A good mystery. Recommended.
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Reviewer: Lizzie
Hayes
Julia Buckley is a Chicago author and teacher. Her published series include the Writer’s Apprentice mysteries, the Undercover Dish mysteries, the first in the Teddy Thurber series, and the Madeline Mann mysteries. She is a member of the Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime and the Chicago Writer’s Association. Julia lives with her husband. Visit Julia at her website,
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