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Legacy of Masks [Hardcover]

Sallie Bissell (Author)
3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)


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March 29, 2005
This killer is so evil, he wears the most deceptive face of all….

Legacy of Masks


Ex-prosecutor Mary Crow didn’t expect a hero’s welcome when she returned home to Pisgah County, North Carolina. But what she did expect was the job she’d been promised in the D.A.’s office. Instead she found she’d worn out her welcome before she even arrived–and that she has more than a few enemies among the supporters of the corrupt sheriff she’d caught sidelining in murder years before.

The new sheriff was one of Mary’s childhood schoolmates, timid and nerdy Jerry Cochran. Only Cochran is neither nerdy nor timid anymore. And when a young girl is found brutally murdered and everyone, including the girl’s parents and the police, is sure the killer is a young, mystical Ani Zaguhi Cherokee named Ridge Standingdeer, Mary’s first case in her own law firm slams her into the heart of a controversy. As a prosecutor, Mary was used to tenaciously tracking down the guilty. Now she finds herself on the other side of the law, defending a client she’s sure is innocent against a merciless system, a bigoted town…and an even more ruthless killer. With her old lover Jonathan Walkingstick, Mary will have to go where she’s never gone before–a place where a psychopath with the perfect mask and a shocking secret is waiting to add Mary herself to his growing collection of silent victims.

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Former Atlanta prosecutor Mary Crow returns home to Pisgah County, N.C., to reunite with her on-again, off-again lover, Jonathan Walkingstick, in her fourth adventure (after Call the Devil by His Oldest Name). Luckily for her, Jonathan still carries a torch ("He wanted to touch her, wanted to kiss her, wanted to take her in his arms and never let her go"). After she's unable to land a job in any local legal outfit, Mary turns free agent, with her first client being the prince of Pisgah County, Deke Keener. Church deacon, girl's softball team coach and president of Keener Construction, Deke's also a longtime child abuser and cold-blooded killer. When high schooler Bethany Daws has her head smashed in with an Indian hatchet, everyone assumes her Cherokee boyfriend, Ridge Standingdeer, did it. Mary, who doesn't buy it, helps Ridge out. Meanwhile, Deke is planning his next molestation and trying to locate some incriminating tapes that Bethany had been threatening to use against him. It seems that Ridge is doomed until a mysterious spiritual savior arrives. Mary has all the right stuff for a gutsy heroine, and Deke is one of the foulest sexual predators in recent memory, but strong romance elements intrude on the action and threaten to overshadow the mystery. Those who prefer their genres served on separate platters should look elsewhere.
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From Booklist

When lawyer Mary Crow returns to her hometown in Pisgah County, North Carolina, it feels right to be back in Cherokee country. After a stint as a hotshot prosecutor in Atlanta and a failed romance, she returns home, hoping to land a job in the DA's office; but she quickly learns that no one wants to hire a Cherokee--especially not a Cherokee who, in an infamous incident from her past, killed the corrupt yet beloved former county sheriff. So she hangs out her own shingle and begins to investigate the murder of teenager Bethany Daws--found with a Cherokee tomahawk in her head. Suspicion immediately falls on the victim's boyfriend, Ridge Standingdeer, giving Mary another look at the ugly face of bigotry. Meanwhile, the affable girls' softball coach plots to get his hands (literally) on an 11-year-old player. A grim but well-written adventure that skillfully interweaves Cherokee lore and human nature at its best and worst. Jenny McLarin
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Bantam (March 29, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0553802798
  • ISBN-13: 978-0553802795
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,324,674 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Cherokee mysticism, May 7, 2005
This review is from: Legacy of Masks (Hardcover)
High powered ADA Mary Crowe returns to her home town in North Carolina, hoping to rekindle her romance with old love Jonathan Walkingstick, part Cherokee and total hunk, who is now a widower with a small child. As Mary is half Cherokee herself, old prejudices re emerge and when she sets up a law office in the town, the only offer of work comes from an old classmate, Deke Keener who is now the wealthiest man in town. Unknown to everyone, except his victims, Keener is a pedophile who preys upon the prepubescent daughters of his employees. He ensures the silence of these little girls by threatening to dismiss their fathers, leaving them homeless. Deke drives one girl, Bethany, over the edge by threatening to molest her younger sister, Kayla, as she herself has matured too much to suit his warped needs. Bethany's boyfriend, Ridge Standingdeer, a young Cherokee who is a member of a mystical section of the tribe called Ani Zaguhi, has hidden tapes made by Bethany as she was being molested, and when Bethany is brutally murdered,Deke encourages the police to arrest Ridge, calling him a witch and inciting the locals to villify him, using racial prejudice to urge them on. Mary agrees to act as defence lawyer for Ridge and with the unsought help of Kayla and Avis who is about to become Deke's next victim, works to unmask him and to reveal him as an unspeakable criminal. Although pedophilia and racial abuse are not pleasant subjects, Sallie Bissell writes a very readable story and I feel that more to come, featuring Mary Crowe in her new role as a defence attorney.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as the last one, April 5, 2005
This review is from: Legacy of Masks (Hardcover)
This book is a bit of a let down. The main problem I have with it is that there are pages and pages of absolutely nothing happening. This book could have been shortened by about 80 pages. Mary Crow is an interesting character, but really doesn't do anything until the last 40 pages of the book. Her relationship with Jonathan is nothing more than an afterthought. The most interesting characters in the story are the two little girls who figure out what's going on before anyone else does, and they began to annoy me after awhile. Had high hopes for this one, but it just didn't cut it.
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3.0 out of 5 stars What happened?, May 24, 2011
For me this was a page turner and I couldn't wait to get to the end. Little did I know that I should not have rushed as the ending was such a disappointment. I hate feeling like I wasted my time when I could have read another book and that's just how I felt. Seems like the last 50 or so pages the writer got tired and was like 'whatever' and threw some mess on the page. After such a disappointing let down, this will be my first and last book from this writer. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone.
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The Confederate stood on the seventy-first of the one hundred and five concrete steps that led from Hartsville's Main Street to the Pisgah County Courthouse. Read the first page
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Coach Keener, Bethany Daws, Mary Crow, Deke Keener, Pisgah County, Ridge Standingdeer, Ani Zaguhi, Glenn Daws, Avis Martin, Sylvia Goins, Kayla Daws, North Carolina, Bear Den, Hugh Kavanagh, Main Street, Keener Construction, Darlene Martin, George Turpin, Aunt Little Tom, Jerry Cochran, Little Jump Off, Stump Logan, Baptist Church, Keener Kats, Paula Daws
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