DOUBLE DEAD BY TERRY HOOVERSummer 1961.
Yo-yos are the latest craze. Teenagers are mad for madras. JFK has faced down Castro and the French are fawning over the First Lady, but suburbanites in Charlotte, North Carolina, a big small town with aspirations, are building bomb shelters in the back yard. Things really heat up when John Lattimore, a wealthy local banker, is arrested for the murder of his mistress Delores Green.
After exposing a scandal among management that destroyed his career and his wife's, former newspaper reporter Steve Harlan is eking out a living as a private investigator, when an invitation to join the defense team offers him the big break he has been praying for. His jubilation is tempered, however, when he learns how heartlessly Lattimore has involved Delores's 13-year-old son.
Lattimore admits bringing Delores's body home and bullying her son into helping him make it appear she died a natural death, but claims she was a secret alcoholic who drank herself to death and all he's guilty of is a cover up.
But the Medical Examiner says the 200 bruises on her body make it murder. Lattimore insists Delores acquired the bruises when she went missing two nights before her death, but the only witness who might confirm his story has also mysteriously disappeared.
Battling his ambivalence toward his client as well as the Prosecution, Steve races to unearth evidence that will save Lattimore from the gas chamber -- and protect his own family from someone who will do anything to keep it hidden.
Hardcover: 357 pages
Publisher: Five Star (ME) (January 17, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1594145873
ISBN-13: 978-1594145872
Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.9 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
Terry Hoover, a Malice Domestic grant winner, has been writing for local, regional and national publications and corporate clients for 20 years. She is president of both the Guppies, a Sisters in Crime chapter for its unpublished members, and the Tarheel Gumshoes, a local Sisters in Crime chapter. Double Dead, a finalist in the Malice Domestic St. Martin’s Press contest for Best First Traditional Mystery, is the first book in the Steve Harlan series. Hoover, a native of Charlotte, NC, where Double Dead is set, now lives just outside the city, with her husband, a public relations consultant.
Publisher: Five Star (ME) (January 17, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1594145873
ISBN-13: 978-1594145872
Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.9 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Terry Hoover, a Malice Domestic grant winner, has been writing for local, regional and national publications and corporate clients for 20 years. She is president of both the Guppies, a Sisters in Crime chapter for its unpublished members, and the Tarheel Gumshoes, a local Sisters in Crime chapter. Double Dead, a finalist in the Malice Domestic St. Martin’s Press contest for Best First Traditional Mystery, is the first book in the Steve Harlan series. Hoover, a native of Charlotte, NC, where Double Dead is set, now lives just outside the city, with her husband, a public relations consultant.
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1 comment:
I really enjoed this book. Are there any others in the series?
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