The Crows: P.J. Benson Mystery

by Maris Soule

Book Overview

Listen to the crows, her neighbor tells her, but when the crows caw a warning, P.J. Benson doesn't listen. She's been told living in the country is safer than living in the city. She certainly doesn't expect to be shot at when she takes her Rhodesian Ridgeback puppy for a walk in her own woods. And she definitely doesn't expect to find a man dying in her dining room. What was he trying to tell her?

P.J. is a C.P.A. and it's tax time...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467919306
• ISBN13: 9781467919302
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Creative Thriller with a Surpise Ending

I discovered this book at my local library in a display showcasing local authors. Curious I picked it up and was glad that I did. This was a great book. Often when I read mysteries, I can figure out how it's going to end. I assumed that I did with this one, I was even getting frustrated with the heroine for not figuring it out along with me. Boy was I wrong! The ending was nothing like I thought it was going to be. This book is a great psychological journey. As PJ unravels the pieces, nothing is what it seems and the mystery is masterfully done.

Page turner! Great Book.

I couldn't put it down! The characters were so well written that I felt like I was losing an old friend when I finished the book. The twists and turns in plot kept me hooked, and the ending was great. But I think the best part about the book was the feel of reality to it. Its placed in a small town with people who have normal abilities, normal reactions, and regular jobs, yet they overcome great difficulties. Overall, out of the hundreds of mysteries I read each year, this is one of the best I've read.

THE CROWS is a creative well written psychological suspense thriller.

CPA P.J. Benson moves away from Kalamazoo into a small house she inherited from her paternal grandfather in Zenith Michigan, a farming community where nobody locks their doors. This proves to be a mistake as P.J. discovers when she is taking a walk in the woods and she hears shots ring out. She rushes home finding a blood trail that leads to her kitchen until she reaches a dead man. Detective Wade Kingsley is put in charge of the case and feels that P.J. is a possible suspect even though she doesn't know the man. Her closest neighbors John and Julia think they know who the victim was and they believe he stole bioengineered lady bugs from a lab. They can't tell the police because John brought them home from work without permission. Several times P.J. feels someone has been in her home but the police think she is crazy (a sore spot for her because her mother is a schizophrenic) but she knows where each pf her belongings are supposed to be. When certain evidence comes to light, Wade believes her and wants her to stay at his sister's house until they can figure out what is going on. P.J. refuses and almost gets them both killed from a ghost out of her past. Since mental illness runs in her family, P.J. ponders if the things that are happening to her are hallucinations like a jealous lesbian poisoning her food or her hearing the voice of someone dead for eighteen years over the phone. She comes to realize she is as sane as anyone else and somebody is playing mind games with her. The mystery is well constructed with different neighbors at different times coming under suspicion. THE CROWS is a creative well written psychological suspense thriller. Harriet Klausner