Disco Dead
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
A trip to the local cemetery draws Hannah into a puzzling case stretching back forty years.
It may seem creepy, but Hannah Ives enjoys her expeditions to the local cemetery to help people find their deceased relatives. Usually a quiet affair, Hannah is surprised when she encounters Isabel ‘Izzy’ Randall laying flowers on the grave of Amy Madison, a college senior who was killed in 1978. Last seen in a popular Annapolis disco bar, Amy's murder remains unsolved.
Hannah's interest in the case leads her to join Silent Sleuths, a small, passionate group of ‘citizen detectives’ dedicated to trying to solve cases like Amy's, and their research soon suggests that Amy may have been the first of several victims targeted by a serial killer. As DNA from the scene of the murder throws up surprising results, their investigation takes them down unexpected avenues. Is Amy’s killer still alive, or has an untimely death taken them beyond justice?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The 1978 murder of 17-year-old Amy Madison, who spent her last night dancing at an Annapolis, Md., disco in the company of two Naval Academy cadets, drives Talley's satisfying 19th Hannah Ives mystery (after 2021's Done Gone). Forty years later, Amy's killer is still at large. A chance meeting brings Hannah, a "search angel" who helps people trace their family trees, and Isabella "Izzy" Randall, a sidelined investigative reporter, together to solve the cold case. Hannah partners with Izzy and Izzy's friends—Mark Wallis, a military chaplain with a master's degree in criminal psychology, and Jack Shelton, a former Baltimore homicide detective—to use their respective skills to trace the case's decades-old clues. With Hannah doggedly hunting through genealogy websites with now-available DNA information, Izzy interviewing witnesses, Jack looking through similar killings, and Mark searching Navy files, the four (aka the Silent Sleuths) prepare to deliver long-overdue justice to a serial killer with a victim in every port. Many will appreciate that the characters rely on brains rather than brawn. This intelligent mystery series deserves a long run.
