Thursday, May 31, 2012 – 17:08 Reviewed by David M. Kinchen
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Shades of Murder’: Mac Faraday Meets Joshua Thornton in Complicated Cold Case Mystery Tale
Lauren Carr has created two series of mystery tales, one involving former DC Homicide Detective Mac Faraday, living in Deep Creek Lake, Maryland; the other involving Hancock County, West Virginia Prosecuting Attorney Joshua Thornton.
Mac and Joshua meet for the first time in Carr’s latest Mac Faraday mystery, “Shades of Murder” (CreateSpace, 230 pages, $14.99 print, $2.99 Kindle, available from Amazon.com). They’re brought together by two almost decade-long cold cases — one involving the murder of a woman near Pittsburgh, the other the murder of celebrity artist Ilysa Ramsay, the trophy wife of high-tech tycoon Neal Hathaway in Deep Creek Lake, where Mac Faraday lives.
Mac inherited the fortune of “Queen of Mystery” Robin Spencer, his birth mother, enabling him to leave his underpaid life in Washington, DC and live large in Deep Creek Lake. He has a palatial mansion, a German Shepherd with attitude named Gnarly and a girlfriend named Archie Monday, who was the personal assistant to Spencer and who conveniently lives in Mac’s guesthouse.
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