Review of Music of Ghosts by Sallie Bissell
A Mary Crow Mystery
5 Stars
I had read an earlier mystery in the Mary Crow series some
years back, and enjoyed it very much. I also found myself totally engrossed in “Music
of Ghosts,” Sallie Bissell’s newest entry in this series. Mary Crow is a
Cherokee attorney, a former prosecutor, who for the past seven years has lived
on a mountain in North Carolina’s Pisgah County and practiced civil law. She
made a promise seven years ago to her life partner and long-term love Jonathan
Walkingstick, not to practice criminal law. But now, the coed daughter of a
former North Carolina governor has been murdered, an odd script carved all over
her body, near an infamous, supposedly haunted cabin, the scene of two murders
back in 1958.
Sallie Bissell delineates the Appalachian landscape and its
people, both Caucasian and indigenous, with a
deft brush, and brings the area vividly to life. Reading this novel was
like following the characters around, experiencing their events and emotions. I’m
definitely making it my goal to catch up on the books in this series I’ve
missed.
I reviewed a complimentary e-book copy via NetGalley.
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