In 1983, hikers in New Mexico’s Gila National Forest find the bodies of a woman and two children in barrels. Thirty years later, nobody has a name for any of them. Laura MacDonald, a librarian and genealogist in Connecticut going through breast cancer treatment, takes up the case as an anchor in tough times, and she works it with Jean Martinez, a Sierra County detective whose family wants her retired. The third voice in the book is the dead woman herself, telling it from the afterlife and afraid that if the killer is caught she’ll be remembered only for how she died. Herchenroether is a breast cancer survivor and that half of the book is as sharp as the mystery.
Night Flowers