Review: Short but Sweet!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 27, 2013
This novella, the second in the Abbott and Lowell forensic crime series, is short in length, but not in content. Meticulously researched details, along with excellent character development, leave the reader wanting more.  The series started with "Dead, Without a Stone to Tell it". In this installment, Massachusetts State Trooper Leigh Abbott and Forensic Anthropologist Matt Lowell team up to combine police work with forensics to solve a murder. The story painfully highlights the way women are treated as mere objects in many other countries. A young Afghani immigrant is viciously murdered and left in a landfill. Abbott and Lowell combine to give the young woman a face, and a name, and finally, justice. The relationship between Abbott and Lowell is still young, and promises to keep growing in the next installment, A Flame in the Wind of Death.  This is a great series and I think it will prove to be quite successful in the years to come.