Restless Spirit

by S.D. Tooley

Overview

Seventeen years ago Catherine DeMarco spent one hot July night where she shouldn't have been doing something she shouldn't have been doing. This was a fatal mistake. Now Jimmy Taggart is sitting on death row. Details of that night are still hazy in his mind but the evidence was conclusive. No one believed in his innocence then. Only one person believes in it now. Sergeant Samantha Casey fought to clear the name of a Korean War vet in WHEN THE DEAD SPEAK. She found a redeeming quality in a renegade mercenary in NOTHING ELSE MATTERS. In RESTLESS SPIRIT Sam touches a button unearthed at a construction site and suddenly sees the murder taking place, hears the name of the killer repeated in her head. It's not Jimmy Taggart's. Paul Goddard, the detective who had worked the most brutal crime in Chasen Heights' history, had always felt the case against Taggart had been a little too easy. Now he is off the force and battling his own demons. Sam enlists his aid but the former detective has doubts about this new evidence after he hears how Sam obtained it. The DeMarcos are less than cooperative. What secrets about Catherine's life are they trying to hide? Sam has a tough time convincing her husband, Jake, of Taggart's innocence. He prefers to deal in logic, and Sam's method of police work is far from logical. But while investigating another homicide, Jake discovers a safety deposit box filled with newspaper clippings from the DeMarco case. RESTLESS SPIRIT runs true to form in a finely crafted blend of mystery, suspense, and Native American mysticism. Book 3 in the series.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940000706343
Publisher:	Full Moon Publishing LLC
Publication date:	10/02/2009
Series:	Sam Casey , #3
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	345,197
File size:	330 KB

About the Author

Whenever her husband is asked to describe her in one word, he usually says "strange." While other kids watched cartoons, Sandy waited with baited breath for Shock Theatre. While other young women subscribed to Cosmopolitan, Sandy subscribed to Dr. J. Allen Hynek's "UFO Reporter." Her Sam Casey series features a detective who can hear the dead speak. (Think "Medium" with a Native American twist. A fan of Stephen King and Nancy Drew, she was able to combine both of her loves in her cross-genre mysteries.

Editorial Reviews

During a visit to a Chasen Heights construction site, Samantha "Sam" Casey, a suspended Native American cop with psychic powers, "sees" the stabbing of a young woman. Her subsequent sleuthing reopens a 17-year-old, apparently cut-and-dry rape-murder, for which the wrong man is about to be executed. Sam and husband Jake, also a detective, eventually back up her vision with concrete clues, all the while side-stepping intrusive media, disbelieving family, and political maneuverings. An exciting mix of police procedure, spiritual "intuition," creeping suspense, and page-turning narrative, this series (When the Dead Speak) title rates essential. The Chicago-based author also writes the Chase Dagger mysteries as Lee Driver. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

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