another thriller by Edna Buchanan.

Released to my daughter.

Picked this up from mom, adding it to mount TBR.

It's been awhile since I've read a mystery and this one was a great way to remind me why I like the occasional one. This had more than one mystery to solve and as they were cold cases it was interesting to see what has happened to the key players in the time since the crime. Good, fast read. Thanks for sharing it mom.

I`m taking this to the August meeting.

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This is my wrapped book choice and I am pleased it turned out to be a murder mystery. Thank you to the BC duo Crossing-Guard and crossingguardma.

A fast-paced story unravelling the cold case file murders from the past with interesting character development between the detectives of the squad. The only character I didn't care for was Kiki Courtelis, the local historical preservationist, who spouted historical facts to the point I hoped she would be knocked off next.

I took the book to the Calgary BC Meetup at the Joshua Tree Cafe.

I totally missed journalling this one after the meeting last time - oops- sorry :)
Anyways, I really enjoyed this mystery! The cover isn't much to look at, but the story was very entertaining! Just goes to prove you shouldn't judge a book by it's crappy cover ;-)
I really enjoyed the cold-case aspect of the book and the fact that it had more than one mystery going on in the story. I totally agree with rureading about Kiki. I was hoping somebody would have some duck tape within a page of meeting her.
I am going to reserve this book for the upcoming Mystery VBB that I have signed up for.

I am adding this synopsis for VBB participants

From the Publisher
"The wide front door hung open, a seductive invitation to a dark interior veiled by dust motes that glittered in the spectral greenish glow..."
The Shadows is a historic 1920s house that inspires preservationists'' dreams -- and developers' schemes. Built during Prohibition by a notorious rumrummer who vanished at sea, it was inherited by his son, a local athlete and war hero who lived down his father's wild reputation. He served a successful term as Miami mayor and raised his four young children at the Shadows -- until a shotgun ambush on a hot summer night forty-four years ago. His murder was never solved. Since then, only secrets and whispers have inhabited the Shadows.

Now, a resourceful young preservationist approaches the Miami Police Department's Cold Case Squad to help block a developer's plan to bulldoze the Shadows and build high-rise towers. The detectives visit the long-abandoned pioneer house, now surrounded by a wild and overgrown subtropical forest. They discover the rumrunner's secret limestone cellar, a tunnel to Biscayne Bay, and seven small, heartbreaking new mysteries -- a lost generation.

Cold Case Squad Lt. K. C. Riley and her detectives seek out the murdered man's widow and children for answers. All are evasive and paranoid, haunted by lies, guilt, and tangled pasts that each recalls differently. Ultimately the squad finds that the killer is still out there, and the old, cold case is hotter than ever.

In another dazzling example of Edna Buchanan's masterful weaving of stories and histories, Cold Case Squad Detective Sam Stone uncovers a still violent and long-hidden connection between his parents' murders when he was a child and their summer as civil rightsworkers in Mississippi more than thirty years ago.

"Life would be simple," Buchanan writes, "if people told the truth." But for those who live among the shadows, the truth is never simple. "Shadows" is Edna Buchanan's most suspenseful novel.

I am mailing this book to Erishkigal in Salt Lake City, Utah, as she chose this book as one of her Mystery VBB selections. I hope she enjoys it and the neat newspaper clipping that accompanied the book when I received it.
Happ Reading!

Thanks for offering this in the VBB, Minerva: it sounds intriguing and I look forward to reading it :-)
And that newspaper clipping~~Wow~ talk about cold cases! Now I wonder what else has been learned....
Thank you also for including the synopsis in your journal~~that really helps, and is what led me to choose this book.

And lastly, THANK YOU for the wonderful Rabck wishlist book sent along with this one~~what a surprise!!!!

I very much enjoyed this book by a new-to-me author. Thank you, Minerva (and all who passed it along into her hands)!

Two cases kept the story moving quickly, the cases themselves were both intriguing, and the resolving of them felt real. I didn't find KiKi nearly as obnoxious as others did~~ Buchanon has to get the exposition across somehow, and in a case as long cold as The Shadows,coming via a historical preservationist worked for me. And I found her reasonably fleshed-out,so that she was not just an 'information dump.' I hope to see the squad again, as they were mostly likable, as was grandma :-)

I offered this good book several times on various vbbs, but it was never selected, and sort of disappeared in the vast Himalayan range that is the books in my house....when I moved a few months ago, it resurfaced. I went up to to visit my granddaughter and explore Yellowstone and surrounds, and took a bag of books for releasing; this among them.

I left it on a coffee table in the lobby, hopefully to be found and enjoyed by another guest :)

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