The Bones will speak : Gwen Marcey novels #2 / Carrie Stuart Parks.

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Title:

The Bones will speak : Gwen Marcey novels #2 / Carrie Stuart Parks.

Author:

Parks, Carrie Stuart

ISBN:

9781401690458

Physical Description:

327 pages ; 22 cm

Series:

Gwen Marcey Novels #2

Abstract:

When forensic expert Gwen Marcey discovers a skull and a tortured girl in a cabin near her Montana home, her investigations into the matter lead her to believe that she is dealing with a neo-Nazi serial killer with a score to settle with Gwen.

Subject Term:

Marcey, Gwen (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.

Facial reconstruction (Anthropology) -- Fiction.

Serial murder investigation -- Fiction.

Forensic pathologists -- Fiction.

Genre:

Suspense fiction.

Detective and mystery stories.

Christian fiction.

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Summary

A killer with a penchant for torture has taken notice of forensic expert Gwen Marcey . . . and her daughter.

When Gwen Marcey's dog comes home with a human skull and then leads her to a cabin in the woods near her Montana home, she realizes there's a serial killer in her community. And when she finds a tortured young girl clinging to life on the cabin floor, she knows this killer is a lunatic.

Yet what unsettles Gwen most is that the victim looks uncannily like her daughter.

The search for the torturer leads back in time to a neo-Nazi bombing in Washington state--a bombing with only one connection to Montana: Gwen. The group has a race-not-grace model of salvation . . . and they've marked Gwen as a race traitor.

When it becomes clear that the killer has a score to settle, Gwen finds herself in a battle against time. She will have to use all of her forensic skills to find the killer before he can carry out his threat to destroy her--and the only family she has left.

Reviews (2)

Kirkus Review

A Montana forensic artist is targeted by a serial killer. Recovering from her battle with breast cancer and adjusting to her divorce from a husband who left when he found her new self less than perfect, Gwen Marcey must struggle to find a job that will support her and her daughter, Aynslee, after she's laid off by a belt-tightening Ravalli County. Both an opportunity and a curse arrive in the form of a skull dug up by her dog, Winston. After notifying her friend Sheriff Dave Moore, Gwen backtracks with Winston and finds a badly injured girl in an abandoned farmhouse; she's Mattie Banks, who'd been kidnapped in Missoula. Before the sheriff even arrives, the killer comes back for Mattie and winds up hitting Winston with his car; when he leaves, he calls the police to report that a dog had attacked the girl, nearly getting Winston shot by an overeager deputy. Even though Gwen finds the bones of several other victims, a jealous forensic artist who works for the Missoula police manages to get both Dave and Gwen thrown off the case. But Gwen, shocked by Mattie's resemblance to Aynslee, keeps investigating on her own. Good thing, too, since the sheriff has his hands full with a white supremacist group whose church plans a parade to honor Hitler's birthday. Gwen soon realizes that the serial killer is linked to one of her past cases, in which several white supremacists were killed before executing their plans. The young girls and Gwen play a desperate cat-and-mouse game with an enemy whose goal is to kill them all. Gwen's second case (A Cry from the Dust, 2014) uses Parks' own life experiences to create a fast-moving thriller rife with tension. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Library Journal Review

The discovery of a human skull near her home leads forensic artist Gwen Marcey (A Cry from the Dust) to pursue another investigation. This time a serial killer is operating in her neighborhood, and Gwen must identify the culprit before he finds her. © Copyright 2015. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.