Review: Old Friends and Old Bones
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 12, 2014
This is my fourth Faver novel. It felt like "old home week" revisiting my favorite characters. Handsome Sheriff Rafael Solis, and his wife Chloe return as central figures in a murder mystery going back a half century or more. Thinking that their growing family needs more space, Chloe falls in love with an old abandoned Victorian house on several overgrown acres. In her mind’s eye, she can see the beautiful old bones of the house being restored to their former glory, whereas, Raphael would prefer something more modern. Nevertheless, unable to deny his wife her heart’s desire, “Raffie” hires Mike to rehab the house. Soon, Mike uncovers old human bones buried under suspicious circumstances, and the sheriff’s department is drawn into an old mystery. Who were these people? How did they die? Meanwhile, Chloe, who is disturbed by ghostly visitations from the deceased residents of her dream-home, becomes even more distraught when one of them appears regularly to her young daughter, Lacy.Author J.D. Faver includes all the endearing characters we have come to know from the previous volumes in the series, among them Mike and Darla, who are expecting a baby girl, any day now. Further intrigue includes a series of unsolved home invasions, keeping Ida, Germaine, Adriano and the various members of the sheriff’s department on their toes.Highly recommended for J.D. Faver fans.Dorothy May Mercer