Legacy of Masks
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- 2,49 €
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- 2,49 €
Beschreibung des Verlags
Mary Crow returns to her home town for a promised job that does not materialize. With shrinking prospects and pocketbooks, she opens a tiny one-woman law practice. Her first client is a successful developer, who hires Mary for brain-numbing real estate work. Her second client, however, is Ridge Standingdeer, a young Cherokee boy accused of murdering the beautiful and popular Bethany Daws. Though Mary's promised her great love Jonathan Walkingstick no more murders, Mary can't refuse the boy. Ridge is a mystical Ani Zaguhi Cherokee, from one of the oldest, most revered families of the tribe.
As Ridge awaits trial, Mary tries to build a defense. Unknown to her, other, less experienced investigators are working, too. Trying desperately to save her shattered family, Bethany's twelve-year-old sister Kayla enlists her new friend Avis in an effort to exonerate Ridge and find the true killer. Kayla's experience in detective work comes solely from television shows, while Avis has read every mystery writer from Agatha Christie to P.D.James. Still, the pair persevere, unknowingly blundering into unimaginable dangers.
Though the two girls do uncover evidence, they don't find enough to convince anyone in law enforcement. They decide to set a trap for the killer, using Avis as bait. But the killer discovers the trap and Avis realizes that she will soon be the next to die. Kayla frantically reaches out to the one person who might help them-Mary Crow. As Mary races to stop the killer from striking again, everything she believes about the Ani Zaguhi Cherokees is upended. Their power is real, their mysticism is real as they lash out to save one of their own.
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Former Atlanta prosecutor Mary Crow returns home to Pisgah County, N.C., to reunite with her on-again, off-again lover, Jonathan Walkingstick, in her fourth adventure (after Call the Devil by His Oldest Name). Luckily for her, Jonathan still carries a torch ("He wanted to touch her, wanted to kiss her, wanted to take her in his arms and never let her go"). After she's unable to land a job in any local legal outfit, Mary turns free agent, with her first client being the prince of Pisgah County, Deke Keener. Church deacon, girl's softball team coach and president of Keener Construction, Deke's also a longtime child abuser and cold-blooded killer. When high schooler Bethany Daws has her head smashed in with an Indian hatchet, everyone assumes her Cherokee boyfriend, Ridge Standingdeer, did it. Mary, who doesn't buy it, helps Ridge out. Meanwhile, Deke is planning his next molestation and trying to locate some incriminating tapes that Bethany had been threatening to use against him. It seems that Ridge is doomed until a mysterious spiritual savior arrives. Mary has all the right stuff for a gutsy heroine, and Deke is one of the foulest sexual predators in recent memory, but strong romance elements intrude on the action and threaten to overshadow the mystery. Those who prefer their genres served on separate platters should look elsewhere.