A copy of this murder / mystery, was sent direct by the author, by way of an Amazon gift voucher, without any expectation of promotion or review. However, such is the rapport which has built between myself and author, Carolyn J. Rose over the course of time, that I have no hesitation in sharing what will no doubt be the thrilling conclusion to The Catskill Mountains trilogy, although all three books can be read as stand alone stories.
Read my review of Hemlock Lake
Read my review of Through A Yellow Wood
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THE DEVIL’S TOMBSTONE
The Catskill Mountains are rich in folklore, legends, and tales of the supernatural. Once guided by ghosts, Dan Stone doesn’t disbelieve what can’t be explained. And there’s no logical reason for the patch of blighted ground beside a boulder near Hemlock Lake. Known as the Devil’s Tombstone, the rock marks the spot where, two centuries earlier, a man murdered his young wife and then disappeared.
As a part-time investigator assigned to cold cases, Dan is troubled by more recent deaths and disappearances. Reviewing files dating back two decades, he sets out to discover new leads. But it’s slow going. A massive snowstorm socks the mountains. Dan’s infant son disrupts his sleep. And dynamic preacher Wesley Falton pitches his revival tent, challenging Hemlock Lake traditions and the spiritual leadership of Reverend James Balforth.
As Dan digs deeper into the past, he suspects his cold cases are linked to a fresh murder. When hard evidence eludes him, he appeals for help from beyond the grave. As he does, he wonders whether ghosts make their presence felt because we believe in them, or because they believe in us.
The answer may lie at the Devil’s Tombstone.
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CAROLYN J. ROSE
Carolyn is the author of more than a dozen novels, including the ‘Subbing isn’t for Sissies’ series (No Substitute for Murder. No Substitute for Money and No Substitute for Maturity), and this, the ‘Catskill Mountains Mysteries’ (Hemlock Lake, Though a Yellow Wood and The Devil’s Tombstone).
She grew up in New York’s Catskill Mountains and graduated from the University of Arizona. She then logged two years in Arkansas, with Volunteers in Service to America and spent twenty five years as a television news researcher, writer, producer and assignment editor, in Arkansas, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington.
Carolyn founded the Vancouver Writers’ Mixers and is an active supporter of her local bookstore, ‘Cover to Cover’.
Her interests are reading, gardening and NOT cooking.
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