Título: Echoes of Edisto
Autor: C. Hope Clark
Sinopse: “A phenomenal read from beginning to end.” Sharon Sala, bestselling author, about Edisto Jinx
Murder came in with the tide . . .
Edisto Island is a paradise where people escape from the mainstream world. Yet for newly sworn-in Edisto Police Chief Callie Jean Morgan, the trouble has just begun . . .
When a rookie officer drowns in a freak crash in the marsh, Callie’s instincts tell her it wasn’t an accident. As suspects and clues mount, Callie’s outlandish mother complicates the investigation, and Callie’s long-time friendship with Officer Mike Seabrook takes a turn toward something new—but is shadowed by the unsolved mystery of his wife’s death. Everyone’s past rises to the surface, entangling with death that cuts to the bone.
The roar of the surf made Callie’s steps soundless, her thoughts louder. Two and a half weeks on the job, and she’d lost an officer. Edisto hadn’t sacrificed an officer in its entire history, and the first female chief had to be the one to break the record.
She sniffled. Salty breezes began to clear her sinuses, but nothing could assuage the guilt clinging to her like the muggy air
Sarah lived. Francis died. And somebody had to be disappointed at that freakish turn of events, because she suspected it was meant to be the other way around. Crime was for people who lived across the big bridge on the mainland. But whether the natives liked it or not, the brake lines were cut on Edisto. She didn’t want to go down that path, but one of them might be a frustrated, unfulfilled killer.
C. Hope Clark is the award-winning author of the Carolina Slade Mysteries and now the Edisto Island Mysteries. During her career with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, she met and married a federal agent—now a private investigator. She plots murder mysteries at their lakeside home in South Carolina when not visiting Edisto Beach. Visit Hope at chopeclark.com.
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “Echoes of Edisto”, de C. Hope Clark, publicado pela editora Bell Bridge Books, em 2016 e com 246 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: Bell Bridge Books
Páginas: 246
Ano: 2016-08-05
Edição:
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 1611947065
ISBN13: 9781611947069
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Bell Bridge Books oferecem uma experiência de leitura marcada por mistérios e suspense ambientados em cenários que vão desde pequenas cidades do sul dos Estados Unidos até comunidades contemporâneas e fantásticas. As histórias costumam explorar conflitos pessoais intensos, como investigações criminais que colocam à prova laços familiares e amizades, ou enfrentamentos com forças sobrenaturais, revelando personagens que precisam lidar com dilemas morais e ameaças iminentes. O ritmo varia entre narrativas que equilibram tensão crescente e momentos de introspecção, com diálogos que revelam nuances emocionais e ambientações detalhadas, criando um clima que prende o leitor. O catálogo da Bell Bridge Books sugere uma predileção por tramas que misturam o cotidiano com o extraordinário, seja em dramas humanos ou em universos onde o fantástico se entrelaça com o real.
