The Day That Dusty Died

by Lee Martin and Anne Wingate

Book Overview

Deb Ralston faces her most personally harrowing case when she is assigned to the Fort Worth Sex Crimes Unit and finds herself recalling her own childhood sexual abuse at the hands of her father. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312097794
• ISBN13: 9780312097790
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Vintage Deb Ralston....this is a book that is difficult to

find, even at a rare bookseller.In it, Deb, who should be just relaxing after foot-surgery, grudgingly agrees to help out temporarily in the Sex Crimes Unit.She gets involved solving the real reason why a popular sixteen year old would leap from a balcony. This is tough work for Deb, who's own somewhat dysfunctional childhood keeps surfacing, especially when her younger sister Rhonda turns up, like a bad penny. When Deb's well-meaning mother and a friend of Deb's daughter Becky (the friend has turned to prostitution) are woven into the story, the tale becomes cathartic for victims of sexual abuse, and gives the reader a sense of how difficult it is for the police who try to solve these cases.I found it to be an excellent of Lee Martin's writing of some of her own experiences through the eyes of her heroine, much like her other works, and felt the somber tone was in keeping with the nature of these crimes.Read it if you can get your hands on it!