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A Whisper of Bones
Written by Ellen Hart
Narrated by Christina Moore
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
The next riveting mystery featuring PI Jane Lawless. Britt Ickles doesn't remember much from her only visit to her mother's childhood home when she was a kid, except for playing with her cousin Timmy and the eruption of a sudden family feud. That's why, when she drops by unannounced after years of silence, she's shocked when her aunts tell her Timmy never existed, that she must be confusing him with someone else. But Britt can't shake the feeling that Timmy did exist.and that something horrible has happened to him. Something her aunts want to cover up. Britt hires Jane Lawless, hoping the private investigator can figure out what really happened to her cousin. When a fire in the family's garage leads to the discovery of buried bones and one of the aunts dies suddenly and suspiciously, Jane can't help but be pulled into the case. Do the bones belong to Timmy? Was the aunt's death an accident, suicide, or homicide? What dark secret has this family been hiding for decades? Fans of Jane Lawless new and old will be fascinated by newly minted MWA Grandmaster Ellen Hart's latest intricate puzzle.
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Reviews for A Whisper of Bones
Rating: 3.642857107142857 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5It was ok, which made me decide that I won't be reading another in this series.Jane Lawless has allowed her previous girlfriend, Julia (who is sick w/ cancer), to move back in making it difficult for Jane to deal with her feelings (so it's a damn good thing she takes a case that has her, Jane, staying elsewhere).Taking a break from a conference, Britt goes to visit her aunts and asks about her cousin Timmy, whom she had met & spent time with during their Grandfather's funeral. Both women deny that there ever was a Timmy and that Britt is making up stories.Britt hires Jane to investigate, when Jane goes to question the aunts she finds that the aunts are taking in boarders, so Jane decides to rent a room from the aunts.Aunt Lena is a mouthy alcoholic confined to a wheelchair and Aunt Eleanor is a nice calm church-going woman, whose problematic son, Frank, lives in the basement.When the garage burns down, the arson investigator falls through a trap door and discovers the bones of a murdered man....The other characters:* Jane's friend & partner Cordelia, who hates Julia, and also rents a room from the aunts* Butch a neighbor of the aunts* Pastor Dare who supports Eleanor by keeping her secrets* Novack another neighbor & neighborhood Watch Block Captain* Wendy, Frank's wife, who wants a divorce as Frank becomes more violent* Quentin, another boarder & Paranormal InvestigatorThis is "popular gay mystery series" -- Entertainment WeeklyBut that is not why I didn't like the book: the basic plot, while interesting became convoluted with the addition of the extraneous characters, their issues, and their hidden agendas. There were several loose ends, the conclusion came together all too conveniently, and the additional love story in which Butch was featured was written as a bad sinister stalker Red Herring.I found this book as a simply awful piece of writing mired in what seemed to be confusion about just what to do with all the characters & their back/side stories.The plot/premise is what earned this an extra 1/2 star.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I received an ARC of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. This did not affect my opinion of the book or my review itself.What do you do when you remember someone from your childhood, but your family denies that he ever existed? In Britt Ickles' case, you hire Jane Lawless, private investigator. Jane starts on the case, but a set of bones found in a garage after a mysterious fire complicates matters even further.Jane is a compelling main character. She is smart and resourceful, but still human, as she tries to figure out what she should do about an ex-love who now is back in her world due to a life-threatening illness.I also love the premise. The idea of someone denying the existence of a person that you absolutely remember is really eerie, and makes me want to know more.Hart just tries to fit too much in. There is so much going on, so many subplots, that the mystery suffers. I felt like the solution to the mystery was telegraphed too early, so there wasn't really a lot of suspense. And while I appreciated one of the twists, there was just so many stories flying at me simultaneously that it got sort of lost in the crowd.This is by no means a bad book, it's an okay book with a lot of potential that never got realized. I think if Hart had decided what the focus was, and built from there, the book would have been a lot stronger.