"A riveting and suspenseful mystery involving serial killings and much more danger!"
The Bones Will Speak
Genres: Inspirational Mystery
Posted: January 12, 2016
Gwen isn't here to admire the scenery but to find the place where Winston, her Great Pyrenees dog, had uncovered what looked to be a young woman's skull. Checking by the creek, she finds human remains partially wrapped in tattered plastic. Forcing her training as a forensic artist to kick in, Gwen is even more disturbed by Winston's latest find, and it is fresh. Suddenly, things shift quickly. Is the killer nearby? Why does the girl look so much like her teenage daughter? Is she being targeted? Why?
THE BONES WILL SPEAK is one of the most exciting and page turning mystery novels I have read this year, and that is saying a lot! I can vouch that THE BONES WILL SPEAK is a great stand alone mystery. It is the first novel I have read by Carrie Stuart Parks, yet I definitely plan to read more. I am positive existing fans of the first book in the Gwen Marcey series, A CRY FROM THE DUST, will be thrilled with this subsequent novel featuring Gwen as the feisty and determined protagonist.
In THE BONES WILL SPEAK, Gwen, a divorced, breast cancer survivor, is struggling economically due to her divorce and only getting part time contracts for work as a forensic artist. Her fourteen-year-old daughter Aynslee is being homeschooled. She is a great kid, but in a bit of a rebellious phase which makes her a little unpredictable.
Parks's gift as an author certainly shine in her ability to create authentic characters that spring to life as well as being a very suspenseful storyteller who lets them move the story along in such a riveting page turning manner. Parks's own extensive background in fine arts, forensic artistry, and law enforcement (not to mention her own beloved Great Pyrenees dogs) brings in pertinent details and information, which make THE BONES WILL SPEAK so authentic and engrossing. I particularly like how she juxtaposed the hatred and bigotry coming from neo-Nazis, white supremacist and Christian Identity gatherings and their followers with the true kindness and caring support from her own Christian friends and upbringing.
If you are looking for a great mystery, look no further than this latest suspense thriller by Carrie Stuart Parks! A very difficult whodunit to figure out. You will be surprised! But truly... THE BONES WILL SPEAK!
Book Summary
A killer with a penchant for torture has taken notice of forensic expert Gwen Marcey . . . and her daughter.
When Gwen Marcey’s dog comes home with a human skull and then leads her to a cabin in the woods near her Montana home, she realizes there’s a serial killer in her community. And when she finds a tortured young girl clinging to life on the cabin floor, she knows this killer is a lunatic.
Yet what unsettles Gwen most is that the victim looks uncannily like her daughter.
The search for the torturer leads back in time to a neo- Nazi bombing in Washington state—a bombing with only one connection to Montana: Gwen. The group has a race-not-grace model of salvation . . . and they’ve marked Gwen as a race traitor. When it becomes clear that the killer has a score to settle, Gwen finds herself in a battle against time. She will have to use all of her forensic skills to find the killer before he can carry out his threat to destroy her—and the only family she has left.
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Thomas Nelson
August 1, 2015
On Sale: August 11, 2015
Featuring: Gwen Marcey
336 pages
ISBN: 1401690459
EAN: 9781401690458
Kindle: B00PWOH87M
Paperback / e-Book