Tempe Crabtree is the resident deputy of Bear Creek, a small mountain community in the southern Sierra. Her continuing interest in the spiritual side of her heritage often causes unrest in her marriage to her minister husband. In Calling the Dead, Deputy Tempe Crabtree investigates a murder that looks like death from natural causes, and a suicide that looks like murder. Putting her job on the line, she investigates the murder on her own time and without permission from her superiors. Jeopardizing her marriage, she uses Native American ways to call back the dead to learn the truth about the suicide.
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The plot of this book is gently unfolded and laid out so that as Deputy Crabtree finds clues and sorts things the reader feels a real satisfaction and can almost feel like they are working the case themselves . I enjoyed putting the pieces of the puzzle together and it made the book kind of an interactive reading adventure for me. This book is given FIVE STARS by The American Authors Association. It also receives my personal endorsement. It is enjoyable and entertaining and makes for a nice weekend reading adventure. -W. H. McDonald, President of AAA, American Authors Association Book Review
What I like the most about the Tempe Crabtree series is that you don-t have to read them in order in order to understand what-s happening. The Calling the Death by Marilyn Meredith, the latest in the series refers to what Tempe Crabtree has to do in order to solve one of the two deaths she ends up investigating. -Gerri Balter, Uncle Edgar's Bookstore
Dedicated and all too human, Tempe battles to do her job, save her marriage, and those goals seems mutually exclusive. ... Far from a wonder woman, Tempe's flaws are all too evident but she continues to do what she has to do-but that in no way takes away from the excellent mystery plot. -Patricia Lucas White, Crescent Blue Reviews
The characters are well-defined, the plot carefully structured and the narrative swift and engaging. I am a long time fan of Meredith and look forward to additional installments in the popular series! -Phillip Tomasso III, Bestsellers World Reviews
--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.
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Another Great One in the Temple Crabtree Mystery Series!,
By W. H. McDonald Jr. "The American Author Assoc... (Elk Grove, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Calling the Dead (Tempe Crabtree Mystery) (Paperback)
Mystery writer Marilyn Meredith has a unique writing style that makes all her tales not only wonderful stories but also so easy to read. It is pure enjoyment every time I read one of her books. I have now read so many of them that I am beginning to feel like a real "fan". Her latest book in the "Temple Crabtree Mystery Series" is titled "Calling The Dead". This is her best work to date. She actually appears to be getting better with each of her books.
Her Native American heroine is Deputy Temple Crabtree who uses her own intuitions as much as investigative tools to solve crimes. This time her little community of Bear Creek has two events that leave two people dead; one looks or appears to be from natural causes and the other could be a murder. On closer look and on her and her husband's feelings, it becomes much more complicated. Was the murder actually a suicide or an accident? And who were those two young people who reported finding the body and why did they give false names and addresses and leave so quickly? Was the other death really from natural causes? Or do we have something more going on with our new widow? The plot of this book is gently unfolded and laid out so that as Deputy Crabtree finds clues and sorts things the reader feels a real satisfaction and can almost feel like they are working the case themselves. I enjoyed putting the pieces of the puzzle together and it made the book kind of an inter-active reading adventure for me. This book is given FIVE STARS by The American Authors Association. It also receives my personal endorsement. It is enjoyable and entertaining and makes for a nice weekend reading adventure.
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This review is from: Calling the Dead (Tempe Crabtree Mystery) (Paperback)
Well, Marilyn Meredith has done it again - created a page-turner. Her characters are compelling, the plotting is excellent and without holes. Her writing is tight and ingeresting. Thanks for another delightful read!
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Riding along with Tempe Crabtree,
By Pat Browning "Author of ABSINTHEOF MALICE" (Yukon, OK USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Calling the Dead (Tempe Crabtree Mystery) (Paperback)
Over the course of this series I've grown quite fond of Tempe Crabtree as she deals with conflicts arising from her Yanduchi heritage and her marriage to Hutch, pastor of Bear Creek Chapel.
Tempe is resident deputy of Bear Creek, a small community in California's southern Sierra foothills. In this series entry she has two unexplained deaths to deal with. Arthur, a member of Bear Creek Chapel, dies after a trip to the ER. His widow, Felicity, seems more relieved than bereaved. Was it natural causes? Was it murder? Hutch is suspicious. Then a woman's body is found in Bear Creek at the site of an old bridge. Her name is Doreen and she's been having trouble with her boyfriend, Jimmy. He says she jumped. Tempe believes him. Tempe's investigation of Arthur's death takes her to Southern California, where the couple lived before coming to Bear Creek. As is often the case, their former neighbors love to chat. Meanwhile, Jimmy is suspected of Doreen's death. To prove his innocence, Tempe wants to talk to the only other person who knows the truth: Doreen. She consults Nick Two John, who instructs her on how to call back the dead. Meredith is a polished writer. She wraps up this story in 154 pages without sacrificing plot, characterization or sense of place. She introduces a new character, Deputy Oxley, a kind of Barney Fife on steroids, and includes Indian legends on how mountains are made, why people die and what happens when you die. I loved the element of American Indian mysticism, and I loved this book. Pat Browning, author of Full Circle
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