After Aggie Dunkirk’s career is unceremoniously ended by her own mistakes, she finds herself traveling to Wisconsin, where her grandmother, Mumsie, lives alone in her rambling old home. She didn’t plan for how eccentric Mumsie has become, obsessing over an old, unsolved crime scene–even going so far as to re-create it in the dollhouse.
Mystery seems to follow her when she finds work as a secretary helping to restore the flooded historical part of the cemetery. Forced to work with the cemetery’s puzzling, yet attractive archeologist, she exhumes the past’s secrets and unwittingly uncovers a crime that some will go to any length to keep quiet–even if it means silencing Aggie.
In 1946, Imogene Flannigan works in a local factory and has eyes on owning her own beauty salon. But coming home to discover her younger sister’s body in the attic changes everything. Unfamiliar with the newly burgeoning world of criminal forensics and not particularly welcomed as a woman, Imogene is nonetheless determined to stay involved. As her sister’s case grows cold, Imogene vows to find justice . . . even if it costs her everything.
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Summary
From: Rebecca Maney
Book Title: Echoes Among the Stones
Book Author: Jamie Jo Wright
What do you like about this book:
"Their voices will always echo, here, among the stones, . . .
A grandmother and a granddaughter; both consumed by sorrow, both living with regrets, both fighting to either hold on or to move on, both realizing that "grief can become its own prison, . . . once there, getting out is--nigh impossible". Can it ever be over? Will it ever be over?
Aggie Dunkirk arrives at her "Mumsie's" Wisconsin home following a career debacle, assuming that she will spend her unsolicited free time caring for an old woman with a broken hip. Nothing could be further from the truth. Taking a random job opening in the area, she finds herself paired with an engaging young archeologist; both of them tasked with re-cataloguing and re-configuring old grave sites after the town's old cemetery is damaged by a flood. It's not long before voices from those graves come calling.
A brutal murder happened in Mill Creek back in 1946. One that baffled everyone in the small town; for the victim, Hazel Grayson, was beloved by all and her brutal death changed the lives of the entire community, but none more than that of her sister, Imogene. Determined to seek justice for Hazel, Imogene immersed herself in the case, following every possible lead; to the point that she began to lose her own life through her efforts to live for another.
As Aggie, and her co-worker Collin O'Shaughnessy, unwittingly get wrapped up in the cemetery's secrets, Mumsie's secrets also become increasingly hard to ignore. Something else becomes increasingly hard to ignore as well, Collin's way of softening Aggie's rough edges; around her attitude, around her perspective, and quite possibly around her heart. "When you walk a lonely road take hold of the hand of a friend when it is offered to you".
What a stunning story! The author has done everything right!
. . . .and in our hearts. It is how it was meant to be."
I received a copy of this book from the author and publisher. The opinions stated above are entirely my own.
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