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    A Judgment of Whispers: A Novel of Suspense

    By Sallie Bissell

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    Whispers abound at the ancient Spanish Oak. To those who know how to listen, it tells secrets of vanquished conquistadors, Cherokee witches, and the long-unsolved murder of ten-year-old Teresa Ewing. Whispers also thrive in the town of Hartsville—rumors that Teresa's killer still walks free.

    While running for District Attorney, Mary Crow finds the whispers starting to swirl around her. Did one of her friends cover up that twenty-year-old murder? Does her campaign have blood on its hands? As new evidence is discovered, Mary realizes that the only way to save her reputation is to find the true killer and silence the vicious gossip that has trapped so many people in lies.

    Praise:

    "The intricate plot, compelling, well-drawn characters...and Southern setting will appeal to readers of Ron Rash and John Hart."—Library Journal

    "[Bissell's] mysteries are always good company."—Knoxville News Sentinel 

    "The pace was just right, the characters well drawn, and the story was intriguing and interesting."—Suspense Magazine

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLlewellyn Worldwide
    Release dateSep 8, 2015
    ISBN9780738744919
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    A Judgment of Whispers: A Novel of Suspense
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    Sallie Bissell

    I grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, having the good fortune to be raised in a multi-generational family of Southern story-tellers and book readers. In the second grade, I wrote a prize-winning essay about my Chihuahua, Mathilda, and my writing career was launched. My parents gave me a typewriter for Christmas, and I began to churn out one-page mysteries, neighborhood newsletters, dreadful songs (remember, this was Nashville) and even worse poetry. Away from my feverish typing, I joined the Girl Scouts, loved the outdoors and camping, and loved particularly the chills that went down my spine when ghost stories were told around the campfire. I've always loved dogs and horses-Quarter horses and Boxers, especially. Fast forward a couple of decades, and I'm living in Asheville, North Carolina. Though I've written all my life-ad copy, a couple of short stories, ghost writing for a children's series--I'd never found my voice, so to speak, as a novelist. Then suddenly, in the midst of these spooky old Appalachian forests, I did. My heroine Mary Crow came to me almost like the goddess Athena, popping out of Zeus's head. I knew what she looked like, how she laughed, what made her angry, who she loved and what moved her to tears. Her story would be as intrinsic to these mountains as her Cherokee people have been for so many generations. I wrote my first Mary Crow novel, "In The Forest of Harm" over the course of a year. I sent it out, got an agent who sold it pretty quickly. I remember my editor saying "You might be on to something here." Well, five books into Mary Crow's adventures, I guess she was right. Though I've come far and written a lot during those years since I captured the second grade essay prize, at heart I'm still that same kid. I write lousy songs and terrible poetry, but I love the smell of the woods, love to hear a hoot owl in the forest at night, love the chill that an eerie ghost story sends down my spine. If you enjoy those things, too, then take a look my at books. We just might have a lot in common.

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      The Mary Crow series is another one I have followed from the beginning though it has been a few years since her last installment. Mary Crow is a Cherokee lawyer whose own mother was killed many years ago, leading her to her vocation. She is staunch defender of the innocent and a ferocious prosecutor of the guilty. In this novel she is running for District Attorney, when she becomes involved in the twenty year unsolved case of a murdered girl.A good look at how being a suspect, even if not officially, haunt the lives of the four young boys involved. How involved they were is the question, especially since one of the boys. Zach was a bit older and autistic. Also shows how the media convicts even without evidence just supposition and people's expressed opinions and how small minded some people are towards those who are different. When new evidence surfaces things in town will ratchet up again, once again causing some to once again strike out and Zack, now a grown man physically if not mentally, and his mother Grace.Good solid storyline, well rounded characters, and an interesting case. ARC from NetGalley.