Killing the Story by Joan Livingston
An accidental death that was no accident…
For the record, Estelle Crane, the gutsy editor
of The Observer newspaper, died after a hard fall on ice. But years
later, her son discovers a cryptic note hinting her death might not
have been an accident after all.
Was Estelle pursuing a big story that put her
life in danger?
That’s what Isabel Long — along with her
93-year-old mother, Maria, her ‘Watson’ — agrees to investigate
in Dillard, a town whose best days are in the past.
A former journalist, Isabel follows leads and
interviews sources, new and familiar. She quickly finds a formidable
threat in Police Chief James Hawthorne, who makes it clear Isabel is
not welcome in his town — and who warns her against poking her nose
into Estelle’s death.
Of course, that’s after Isabel has discovered
the chief’s questionable policing and a troubled history with
Estelle that goes way back.
Killing the story means
dropping it because there aren’t enough facts to back it up. But
Isabel won’t make that mistake. She’ll see this one through to
the very end.
Can she uncover the plot that led to Estelle’s
murder?
Killing the Story is the
fourth in the popular Isabel
Long Mystery Series.
Joan
Livingston is the author of novels for adult and young readers.
Killing the Story, published by Darkstroke Books, is the fourth in
her Isabel Long Mystery Series, featuring a longtime journalist who
becomes an amateur P.I. solving cold cases in rural New England.
She
draws upon her own experience as a longtime journalist in
Massachusetts and New Mexico to create Isabel Long, a sassy, savvy
widow who
uses the skills she acquired in the business to solve what appears to
be impossible cases. She also relies on her deep knowledge of rural
Western Massachusetts, where she lives, to create realistic
characters and settings — from country bars (where Isabel works
part-time) to a general store’s backroom where gossipy old men
meet.
She
credits her mother, Algerina — the inspiration for Maria, Isabel
Long’s ‘Watson’ — for instilling in her a love of reading and
the power of the written word.
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