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We're starting off Mystery Monday with a very interesting book!
Synopsis:
In the small, sleepy town of Idyll, Connecticut, Police Chief Thomas Lynch assists police officer Michael Finnegan to uncover clues to his sister’s disappearance two decades ago.
Charleston, Massachusetts, 1972: Rookie cop Michael Finnegan gets a call from his mother. His youngest sister, Susan, has disappeared, the same sister who ran away two years earlier. Anxious not to waste police resources, Finnegan advises his family to wait and search on their own. But a week turns into two decades, and Susan is never found.
Idyll, Connecticut, 1999: In the woods outside of town, a young woman’s corpse is discovered, and Detective Finnegan seems unusually disturbed by the case. When Police Chief Thomas Lynch learns about Finnegan’s past, he makes a bargain with his officer: He will allow Finnegan to investigate the body found in the woods—if Finnegan lets the bored Lynch secretly look into the disappearance of his sister.
Both cases reveal old secrets—about the murder, and about the men inside the Idyll Police Station and what they’ve been hiding from each other their whole careers.
Review:
This is the 3rd book in the Thomas Lynch Mysteries series, but the first that I had read! And you KNOW how much I love finding new series to read! Now I'm looking forward to going back and reading the first 2 books! The book is about 6 degrees of separation and as the 2 seemingly unrelated cases are worked out, how much of our lives cross over to others without us knowing, starting a domino effect beyond our control. Lynch and his detectives, Finnegan and Lewis, make for an interesting team, and they deal not only with his being their new chief, but his having come out (as gay) to them in the previous book. As the book is set back in 1999, attitudes in law enforcement were still different, and Gayle does well with showing how they were addressed and dealt with, both in and out of the department. the book has it's quite humorous moments (team baseball shirts),and as the cases come together and reach their conclusion, a satisfying ending! This is an interesting series, with a modern bent, but it might not be for everyone.
About the Author:
Stephanie Gayle is the author of Idyll Threats and Idyll Fears, the first and second Thomas Lynch novels, and My Summer of Southern Discomfort, which was chosen as one of Redbook’s Top Ten Summer Reads and was a Book Sense monthly pick. Gayle has also published stories and narrative nonfiction pieces, including two Pushcart Prize nominees.
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