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Book 3 in the Ada Reed Mystery Series
Ada dredges up a car that has lain at the bottom of a reservoir for sixteen years. Inside are the battered remains of two young people, whom she eventually identifies as high school classmates of hers. The boy is remembered as a bully and a thief, while the girl was his 'shiksa,' his trollop from a poor Christian family. Ada tries to piece together the final days of the Bonnie and Clyde couple, weighed by the knowledge she'd done nothing to help the young people when she could have, and haunted by half-forgotten regrets of her own dredged up with the victims. She scours old files and opens old wounds trying to identify the long-ago killer, finding that the case touches nearly everyone in town—bringing some to shame, a few to tears, and someone, apparently, to homicide.
"A deftly crafted and impressively original suspense thriller of a murder mystery, "The Lambs of Spring" is an extraordinary and engaging read from start to finish. Author Roger Howell's genuine flair for the kind of character and narrative driven storytelling style is ideal for the mystery genre and "The Lambs of Spring" is unreservedly recommended for personal reading lists...
-- Midwest Book Review
Book 3 in the Ada Reed Mystery Series
Ada dredges up a car that has lain at the bottom of a reservoir for sixteen years. Inside are the battered remains of two young people, whom she eventually identifies as high school classmates of hers. The boy is remembered as a bully and a thief, while the girl was his 'shiksa,' his trollop from a poor Christian family. Ada tries to piece together the final days of the Bonnie and Clyde couple, weighed by the knowledge she'd done nothing to help the young people when she could have, and haunted by half-forgotten regrets of her own dredged up with the victims. She scours old files and opens old wounds trying to identify the long-ago killer, finding that the case touches nearly everyone in town—bringing some to shame, a few to tears, and someone, apparently, to homicide.
"A deftly crafted and impressively original suspense thriller of a murder mystery, "The Lambs of Spring" is an extraordinary and engaging read from start to finish. Author Roger Howell's genuine flair for the kind of character and narrative driven storytelling style is ideal for the mystery genre and "The Lambs of Spring" is unreservedly recommended for personal reading lists...
-- Midwest Book Review