Lee Harris The Silver Anniversary Murder

The Silver Anniversary Murder

Lee Harris

Fawett, Sept 2005, $6.99, 256 pp.

ISBN 0449007308

Christine Bennett Brooks gets a phone call from a woman who tells her that a body will be found later that day. After hearing another voice in the background and a loud sound like a gun going off, the phone calls ends abruptly.. Thanks to some quick thinking on Chris's part, the police are able to find out the address of the party who phoned her. When they arrive the apartment, rented out to Holly and Peter Richards is totally devoid of furniture. The house has been cleaned with bleach and the only thing they find is a phone and blood on the floor.

A few weeks later the body of a woman is found presumably the woman going by the name of Holly Mitchell. There is no record of any Mitchell by that name in any of the city of state databases and Chris soon learns think they were using the name of Rosette Parker and Charles Proctor. His body is found a few days after his wife's was located with a bullet in his chest. Chris meets their daughter Ariana when run into one another at Ariana's parent's apartment. She tells Chris that her parents were on the run since she was a little girl constantly changing names and moving every few years. Chris takes a liking to Ariana and together they trace her parent's footsteps to find out who was after them and hopefully find their killers.

Once again Lee Harris delivers a cleverly constructed who-done-it that is full of false leads and red herrings. This is one of the toughest cases the protagonist has ever solved because nobody knows why Ariana's parents were on the run and why someone called Chris to get her involved in the investigation. Readers will come to care about Ariana and hope she finds the answers she is seeking. Chris wants to do everything in her power to her find the answers to mystery her parents took to their grave. This wholesome and deliciously entertaining mystery with a great support cast will please Lee Harris's many fans.

Harriet Klausner