Tally Whyte has spent the past year avoiding her old life
where she counseled the grieving family members of homicide
victims. It was a year ago that her foster mother, Veda,
died and Tally took the money she inherited and traveled.
But her life feels hollow, even purposeless, and she finds
herself back in Massachusetts, entering the building that
houses the Massachusetts Grief Assistance Program that she
started.
But, of course, she's not planning on getting involved
again. Really. Only there is that pretty amazing mystery of
a skull found inside a clay Anasazi pot. Curiosity pulls
her into the office of her friend, Didi, who's doing the
facial reconstruction on the skull. Shocked, Tally finds
that it looks just like someone she knows. But it can't be,
because that pot is very old and it had to have been formed
around the skull.
It's too late for Tally to escape. She's pulled into the
mystery and trying to find her friend to make sure it isn't
her skull. Then another friend is killed and Tally's own
life is in danger.
Three words describe the Tally Whyte series: Intense.
Addictive. Chilling.
Tally's personality will draw you in as surely as the
mystery does in this series. Supporting characters are
multi-layered and intriguing, building a world you'll want
to know. My best advice is to set aside a week and read all
four books (THE BONE MAN, BODY PARTS, THE DEAD STONE and
THE GRIEF SHOP).
Feeling at sea with her professional and personal life,
homicide counselor Tally Whyte is slapped with a conundrum:
a skull found in an ancient Anasazi pot appears to be that
of her good friend, Delphine.
That mystery, combined with a brutal murder close to home
sends Tally on her most dangerous and daring quest yet.
In this, Tally's fourth outing, she travels to Martha's
Vineyard and to New Mexico, where she's been offered a job
with the New Mexico medical examiner's office. It's there,
that her hunt for a killer heats up, particularly since she
seems to be the newest object of the killer's intentions.