From Publishers Weekly
O'Hehir's engaging third mystery (after
Erased from Memory) finds part-time deputy sheriff Carla Day facing a confusing case. In a California community peopled by aging hippies, prophesying teen Tamina Kerry has fallen to her death—or was she pushed? And what's the talk of babies with special indigo auras? When a man is found with his throat slit after Tamina's funeral, Carla knows she needs to find out fast. O'Hehir's spare prose and dab hand with character development render Carla intriguing and slightly remote; readers will plow eagerly through the story just to get to know her better. Her boss, sheriff Cherie Ghent, is also likable, a blonde fashion plate who manages those around her by playing dumb. Running alongside the crime-solving is Carla's intermittent affair with sweet-talking Rob (whom Cherie stole and then generously gave back) and her devotion to her father, who's losing his memory to Alzheimer's. Carla's filial care-giving balances the West Coast occultism and lends this whodunit emotional heft.
(Dec.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Book Description
New from the author of the highly acclaimed Murder Never Forgets.
With her genre-bending mix of literary and crime fiction, Diana O'Hehir again plots a mystery as intricate as the inner workings of the mind.
When an indigo child speaks, people listen. Allegedly radiating an unusual purplish glow, the extraordinary beings are mysterious and otherworldly. And when one of them, fifteen-yearold Tamina Kerry, falls off a ledge to her death, part-time Deputy Sheriff Carla Day investigates. Was her death an accident, suicide-or murder? Carla has experience with those who sometimes fall out of touch with reality, since her father, Professor Day, has early Alzheimer's. Like much of the town of Stanton Mills, California, he had befriended Tamina-but confused her with Ta-Ent, an ancient Egyptian mythical journeywoman among the dead. With her final breath, Tamina spoke of her baby, another indigo child-who had disappeared. Now Carla must rely on the word of a hysterical grandmother and a drug-addled young man claiming to be the baby's father-and search the recesses of her father's fading mind for whatever clues he can provide.
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