review rewind and giveaway: Ways of the Dead by Neely Tucker
Today, in honor of the paperback release of Neely Tucker's first mystery novel, The Ways of the Dead , I'm reposting my review from last fall. It made my Best of 2014 list (#6!) I'm also thrilled to offer a copy of the paperback to one lucky reader in the U.S. The second Sully Carter mystery , Murder, D.C. is out June 30, 2015. Look for my review on June 29th! The backstory: The Ways of the Dead is the debut mystery by Neely Tucker, a veteran journalist and memoirist. The basics: Set in the late 1990's, The Ways of the Dead opens with the murder of Sarah Reese, the fifteen-year-old white daughter of a U.S. federal court judge. Veteran newspaper reporter Sully Carter, who like Tucker himself spent years covering foreign wars, notices a pattern of other dead young women on the same block, but the others are poor and not white. While the police actively pursue Sarah's death and mostly ignore the other deaths, Sully uses his contacts and press badge to...