Going through my diary drafts I stumbled upon a few incomplete and unpublished diaries, including this one about a mystery written by one of our very own community members. (I will allow her to identify herself as she wishes, or not.)
Stilled Lives: The T-Town Murders
by Anna Burdette
Published by CreateSpace
November 10, 2015
230 pages
It is hard for a Book Reader & Lover to not like a mystery set in a public library. Stilled Lives does not remain in the library, which is just as well, because like any good mystery thriller, there is mayhem and murder inappropriate to that place of quiet decorum.
But our protagonists meet there on a regular basis to plot their moves in this engaging debut novel. Victor Santiago was an FBI agent who proved very handy as a scapegoat in a case gone bad five years before. Thomas Maguire, raised on the east side of Baltimore, spent twenty years on the Baltimore PD, and was the lead homicide detective when a case he was working was deemed too politically dangerous to pursue. And Charlie Otis is a precocious computer whiz with a secret hide-out. And then there is Rose:
She has imperial bearing, stunning silver hair woven into a neat French twist, perfect skin, designer clothes, understated yet expensive jewelry and lives in a women's shelter.