The Unquiet Grave
Summary:
The Florida PI’s Thanksgiving plans with his significant other are derailed when Kincaid’s foster father, Phillip, asks for his help with a delicate problem. The body of Phillip’s youthful love, Claudia Olsen, has disappeared from her coffin, a travesty unearthed in the course of the demolition of the Michigan mental institution where Claudia was committed. Kincaid’s search for the missing remains crosses paths with a journalist’s pursuit of rumors that a serial killer, who was also a patient at the facility, is still alive and on the loose. Parrish manages to make what could be a formulaic plot fresh, both through her gift at creating sympathetic main and secondary characters and through her skill at creating suspense and sustaining a mood. The author’s ability to raise goose bumps puts her in the front rank of thriller writers. (Feb.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Retrieved from https://www.amazon.com/Unquiet-Grave-Louis-Kincaid-Mysteries/dp/0786016078
Group Review/Comments:
7 thumbs up–all members present who had read the book!
“A very layered story; the reader goes through many emotions and thoughts.”
“Very creepy setting!”
“Likable main character, with lots of meaty info/backstory.”
“A good mystery; made sense.” (no one guessed the ending!)
“Super fun and smart.”
“Lots of compassion for the mentally ill; the parts about mental illness felt real, not contrived.”
