Yes, The River Knows

By Tracy Dunham

Book Overview

Leaving the big city and coming back to South Carolina was the best thing attorney Tal Jefferson ever did. Even though she's still haunted by the ghosts of her past, she's finally given up the booze and started letting the tranquility of her hometown work its way through her veins. But her life is thrust back into turmoil when she and a high school acquaintance make a gruesome discovery in the Wynnton River. A man has been murdered-and soon, he's identified as the estranged husband of Tal's fierce-hearted secretary, June Atkins. In a town full of racism and self-delusion, Tal will have to clear June's name and save them both from a murderer who'll do anything to save himself.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425205770
• ISBN13: 9780425205778
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Berkley
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 1.0" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Yes, The River Knows

Really enjoyed the second book as much as Ms. Dunham's first in this series. Hope there's a third book in the future.

superb legal thriller

Once she was a high powered defense attorney in the big city riding high until she lost a case that she should have won. Her client was convicted and sentenced to death by lethal injection. Unable to cope with the results, Tal Jefferson returns to her hometown where she does probate, wills and defend DUIs. While she and renowned artist Travis Whitlock are looking at the Wynnton River, they see a head float on by. The retrieved head is that of Daryl, the estranged husband of Tal's secretary June Atkins. A gun in June's possession turns out to be the murder weapon; Tal once again defends a client in a murder investigation. Matters turn strange when one of Tal's other clients is charged with a hit and run; Ike says he lent his truck to a friend. The truck contains the body of Ike's wife but what links the murders is that Ike is June's lover. Tal believes the two killings were committed by the same person and if she finds him it will exonerate June. She takes some perilous risks to prove her friend is innocent. During Tal's latest case, she learns some home truths about herself and what she needs to be happy. Readers will care for this ditzy but clever legal eagle who takes insane risks to make sure that her client is not convicted of a crime she didn't do. The murder mystery is well constructed with a false lead that is so convincing readers will believe that the wrong man is the killer just the way the author intends for us to be fooled. Tracy Dunham is a talented author who will have legal thriller fans valuing her work. Harriet Klausner