No
Stone Unturned: An Ellie Stone
Mystery
James
W. Ziskin
Prometheus/Seventh
Street, Jun 10 2014, $15.95
ISBN 9781616148836
In 1960 popular and beautiful twenty-one
years old Jordan Shaw attends Tufts University in Massachusetts. However, just after Thanksgiving, Fast Jack
Donovan tripped while hunting a rabbit in the woods only to find Jordan’s naked
corpse half buried next to him.
Her hometown New Holland, New York residents
are shocked that the high school homecoming queen and daughter of a judge died
so ignominiously while in denial that the paragon proved not to be the perfect
daughter. The New Holland Republic sends
twentyish reporter Ellie Stone to take pictures to accompany stories
written by reporter George Walsh. Still
grieving her father’s death earlier in the year, Ellie investigates the homicide
starting with locating the victim’s car at the Mohawk Motel and learning from
the ME that Jordan had an intrauterine device installed in her. Ellie wonders if one of the fallen from grace
female’s classmates or professors especially in the French Department include a
killer; but who remains out of reach as the deceased’s horde of admirers take
out their rage on the intruding journalist.
The latest Ellie Stone journalist
investigation (see Styx
& Stone) is a great whodunit as the ambitious reporter leaves
No Stone Unturned to learn the truth; while an angry Jordan fan club assaults
her for daring to taint the image of their ideal woman. This is a strong entry with a deep cast as
the intrepid reporter deals with those who reject the aftermath of “When the statue on the pedestal comes crumbling to the ground
…” (Brooklyn Bridge’s Blessed Is The Rain).
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