Fractured Truth

By Susan Furlong

Book Overview

When the mutilated remains of a young woman are found in an Appalachian Mountain cave, newly sworn-in deputy sheriff Brynn Callahan is forced to track down a killer driven by twisted motives . . . Not long after donning the uniform of the McCreary County Sheriff's department in Bone Gap, Tennessee, ex-Marine Brynn Callahan faces her first official homicide. On a cold February morning, a lone cross-country skier stumbles across the mutilated body of a young woman. Sent to investigate, Brynn is shocked when she recognizes the victim as a fellow Traveller, Maura Keene. Maura held a solid standing both within the Travellers' insular community and among the settled townspeople-a fact that makes her murder all the more disturbing to Brynn, who also straddles the two worlds. After her trained K-9, Wilco, digs up human bones, and then a scrap of paper scrawled with arcane Latin phrases is uncovered, Brynn finds evidence leading her to question those closest to her-and closing the case becomes a deeply personal matter. While trying to suppress local superstitions and prejudices, Brynn discovers that Maura was keeping a dangerous secret. And as the bones Wilco found are analyzed by forensics, Brynn harbors the troubling suspicion that she knows who they belong to. Still struggling with PTSD, Brynn must put her career on the line and her life at risk to find justice for a woman not unlike herself-haunted by her past, and caught in a vicious cycle she may never escape . . .

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 149671170X
• ISBN13: 9781496711700
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.1" x 7.4"

Customer Reviews

Somewhere Between a 3 and a 4

While I enjoyed the first in the Bone Gap series, Splintered Silence, this one was too dark and depressing for me. It did keep me reading, but Brynn, the main character, was really over the top in this installment. She was too much into the booze and the pills, and yes, I understand that a lot of injured war vets end up this way, but a lot do not succumb to their demons and Brynn didn't even seem to want to try. Also, this did not paint a very good picture of the Pavees, the Irish Travellers at all. Sounds as if both sides of the specturm, the Pavees and the Settled all have prejudicial issues they need to get over and get past. Too heavy into all of that. I will read the next one in the series because if you can put all of that aside, the mystery/story is pretty good albeit very dark. Not usually my kind of reading, but I will finish the series.