Eleanor Taylor Bland - A Dark and Deadly Deception (2005)
Reviewed by David J. Montgomery
Eleanor Taylor Bland returns with A Dark and Deadly Deception, her thirteenth mystery featuring police detective Marti MacAlister, formerly of Chicago, now living in Lincoln Prairie, Illinois.
MacAlister and her partner are working a pair of cases: one involving the skeletal remains of an unidentified victim from sixty years in the past, the other a current homicide whose victim was a bit player in a Hollywood film being shot locally. Surprisingly, there are clues that seem to link the two cases together, if only the police can put them all together.
The mystery in A Dark and Deadly Deception is fine, but it’s the warm and rich characters that really make it sing. They are well-drawn, multi-dimensional people, full of hopes, dreams, fears and faith, and in Bland’s capable hands they come alive on the page.
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