Scattered Graves (Diane Fallon, No. 6) [Paperback]

Beverly Connor (Author)

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Publication Date: February 3, 2009

Local politics get nasty when Rosewood, Georgia, elects a new mayor—and Diane Fallon is replaced with an incompetent crony as head of the crime lab. But just as she’s adjusting to life without murder, the newly appointed chief of police and the mayor are shot dead. Back on the job, Diane realizes that no one is safe—least of all her.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Penguin Group; Original edition (February 3, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451226143
• ISBN-13: 978-0451226143
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.1 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #119,101 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Action, adventure mystery, February 10, 2009

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Ruth B. Ingram (East Texas, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scattered Graves (Diane Fallon, No. 6) (Paperback)

This is another bang up action mystery from Beverly Connor. She has just about coronered the market on forensic mysteries. Her novels are well paced and her research is well done. The characters are lifelike and easy to dislike the villians. I am always assured of a good nights entertainment with Ms. Connor.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars engaging crime caper, February 3, 2009

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This review is from: Scattered Graves (Diane Fallon, No. 6) (Paperback)

In Rosewood, Georgia, newly elected Mayor Spence Jefferies has fired experienced supervisors like the chief of police and the chief of the crime lab replacing them with political hacks. No longer working for the town as its crime lab chief, RiverTrail Museum of Natural History curator Diane Fallon has run-ins with her replacement Lloyd Bryce and his thugs. However, legally she is in the right as the crime lab is owned by the museum not the town.

As Bryce and the new police of chief Peeks lead the harassment of her, one of the cops Harve Delamore tries to kill her, but instead he dies falling from a cliff ledge. When someone kills Jefferies and Peeks apparently in retaliation by "biting" back for their nefarious activities, the townsfolk want Fallon and her former team of crime scene experts to investigate. Although she has doubts about getting involved, Diane begins to look into the homicides because the prime suspect worked for her recently at the lab and in a nasty lethal overseas incident that has left both with emotional scars.

Although why the harassment, which comes across for much of the book as childishly inane especially without legal counsel, is not explained until very late to the reader (early would have been better even if the heroine is left in the dark), this is an engaging crime caper. Someone finally had enough of the bullying tactics of the mayor, the police chief, and their hooligans; Diane worries her friend and former employee David is that someone as she fears he went over the edge with frustration. Fans will enjoy this small town Georgia thriller as Rose County becomes a killing field.

Harriet Klausner

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fast paced. Another good one!, March 9, 2009

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Athens fan (Athens, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Scattered Graves (Diane Fallon, No. 6) (Paperback)

As with all Beverly Conner's novels, Scattered Graves is another cleverly plotted, fast-paced mystery full of surprising twists and turns. The technology is fascinating and her careful research is apparent. Although I wondered what an early incident in the novel could have had to do with later events, I trusted the author to bring it all together, and so she did in a very satisfying conclusion. Altogether entertaining!