Disturbing the Dead

"Disturbing the Dead" by Parshall, Sandra, published by Poisoned Pen Press. Tom Bridger, who is half Melungeon, thought he had escaped his mountaincommunity’s lingering prejudice against the mixed-race group when heleft to work for the Richmond, Virginia Police Department. Tom wasmoving up the detective ranks when a family tragedy brought him backhome and moved him into his father’s job as a county sheriff’s deputy.Now the bones of a Melungeon woman have surfaced on a remote mountaintop,and all evidence points to murder. Violence escalates as the victim’spoor family and the wealthy white family she married into scramble toprotect their secrets from Tom’s probing. Adding to his pain, he wonders if his father was not the man he idolized.Tom is falling inlove with veterinarian Rachel Goddard, who is struggling to forge a newlife in a place that holds no memories. Rachel puts herself in dangerwhen she befriends the dead woman’s niece Holly. As a child, the girlwitnessed something that could implicate her aunt’s killer, but she istoo terrified to tell anyone what she knows.The guilty aredetermined to silence the girl—and Rachel too, if sheinterferes—changing Tom’s investigation into a personal quest to lay the dead, and the living, to rest. Book details: published 2007. Order now on BookShops.in with fast, reliable delivery across India.