False Tongues: A Callie Anson Mystery
Kate Charles
Poisoned Pen, Apr 7 2015, $24.95
ISBN 9781464200045
In spite of having a new beau in London Police Family Liaison
Officer Mark Lombardi, All Saints Church Anglican curate Callie Anson wants to
skip Deacon's Week; as she is not ready to see her former lover Adam who dumped
her for someone else. Still Tamsin
Howells insists Adam is not coming; so Callie’s friends Val Carver and Nicky
Lamb persuade her to head to Cambridge.
However, to her dismay Adam decides to attend Deacon’s Week.
At the same time that Callie struggles to arrive in Cambridge,
Mark works on the murder investigation led by Detective Inspector Neville
Stewart of popular teenager Sebastian Frost in Paddington Green. However, the cops soon find a cyber-crack in
Sebastian’s seemingly golden life as an intelligent, handsome star athlete and
son of two medical professionals. Mark works
on obtaining the cooperation of the victims’ reluctant parents while reading
the riot act to his own family for their cold reactions towards Callie.
Linked only by each subplot containing a close look at family
relationships, these diverse captivating dramas grip the audience throughout
the outstanding fourth Callie Anson (and Mark Lombardi at least in this book) mystery
(see Secret Sins, Evil Intent and Deep
Waters). The Callie tale
focuses on encountering a former love for the first time since the other party
broke it off; while the Lombardi segue concentrates on cyberbullying and
families rallying around one of their own (in death or against their loved
one’s wishes).
Harriet Klausner
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