Shroud of Roses
A Cornwall and Redfern Mystery
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Publisher Description
The Class of 2000 held one final party in the old gym before the high school was abandoned and boarded up. At midnight, the school emptied for the last time. Or so everyone believed.
Fifteen years later, the building is finally scheduled for demolition. As a salvage team sweeps the halls for anything of value, they discover a woman's skeleton curled up in a locker with a hole in the left temple. Lockport's Chief of Police, Neil Redfern, is called in to investigate.
When Redfern learns that Bliss Moonbeam Cornwall, his new girlfriend and the town's resident troublemaker, also graduated that fateful year, he reveals other details of the grisly discovery. Cornwall insists she knows who his victim is, but before any headway can be made in the case, another former classmate turns up dead.
Could the two murders be connected? Bliss's unconventional methods and penchant for getting into trouble may jeopardize both the investigation and her relationship before she's finished.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Ferris's exciting follow-up to Corpse Flower (winner of the 2010 Unhanged Arthur Ellis Award), Bliss Moonbeam Cornwall, a divorced socialite now working multiple part-time jobs to make ends meet and keep her motorcycle running, and Neil Redfern, the police chief in smalltown LockPort, Ont., end up working together again when skeletal remains are found inside an abandoned school, where Bliss was a member of the last graduating class. As such, she's able to provide insight otherwise unavailable to Neil and his investigating officers, but in her typical fashion, when she is told to leave police matters to the police and to stay out of the investigation, she takes things into her own hands. And when another classmate is found brutally murdered, Bliss and her former classmates become not just suspects but possibly the next victims. Apart from the suspenseful plot, the book is fuelled by Bliss's character, which provides shots of humor as her determination, cunning, and manipulative ways get her into, and out of, trouble, and by the lively and sexy chemistry between her and Neil.
Customer Reviews
GREAT READ!!!
I loved this book! No way was I expecting the humor of the characters. I thought it was going to be a regular mystery book. Boy, was I pleasantly surprised. I loved this Bliss girl, she's not taking any crap off anyone and I love strong female leads! Duh, I'm female. Ha!!
I was pretty sure I knew who "did it" when Redfern added the new name on the whiteboard and I was correct. However, that in no way took away from my enjoyment. And the fact that this was the second in the series did not hinder anything for me. I just want to read the first one now!!
I will definitely be keeping up with this series in the future and recommend that if you like mysteries with a little humor, pick this one up!
Thanks to Dundurn and Net Galley for providing me this entertainingly funny e-galley in exchange for an honest review.