9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Don't Miss This One, August 28, 1999
By A Customer
Hannah Ives, downsized and recovering from cancer goes to stay with her sister-in law Connie in Pearson's Corner, on her husbands family farm situated in a quiet backwater.
On the first morning of her stay, awaking refreshed with the warm sun on her face, Hannah takes Colonel, the aging half German shepherd and half fox terrier for a walk across the sun dappled fields past the Nichols old place., Relaxed and singing, her enjoyment of the morning is shattered when whilst trying to retrieve her hat, she finds a body.
When the body is identified as that of a young girl who disappeared eight years earlier, Hannah feels an obligation to discover who murdered her.
This is not just a `who dun it', but a story of people, the pain in everyday life and how they cope with that pain. There were passages in the book that so identified with something I had experienced that they jumped off the page, but I suspect that it is something that anyone who reads this book will experience.
The story is complex and the characterisation excellent. This is a terrific book with a heroine who is vulnerable, often frightened, but not going to give in no matter what life throws at her. I really like Hannah and I want to know what happens to her next. So please Marcia, when do we next meet Hannah?. Highly recommended. Don't miss this one!
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent, September 21, 1999
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Sing It To Her Bones was an excellent mystery. I couldn't put the book down once I started reading, the pace is fast and one is never bored. It is a great book for an airplane flight for the hours do fly when reading an intense mystery such as Sing It To Her Bones. The answer is not revealed until the very end and the result is satisfying.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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A good, easy to read, Whodunit, March 27, 2005
This is an excellent first novel by the author, and the first novel in the Hannah Ives series. I purchased the novel after reading "I'd Kill for That," a round robin mystery edited by the author.
The plot is set in a small town in Maryland. Hannah Ives has gone to stay with her sister-in-law. When a body is discovered, an old case is reopened, and suspicion falls on a number of people. Everyone is not as they seem. A lot of information was covered up eight years earlier, and things are going on in the small town. Hannah finds her own life in danger as she opens up a can of worms.
The author is from the area used for the setting. It can be assumed some portions of the plot are drawn from her own experience. The story is well crafted.
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