Title: The Summer of Love and Death
Author: Marcy McCreary
Series: A Ford Family Mystery #3
Genre: Mystery
Date of Publication: August 13, 2024
Publisher: CamCat Books
Synopsis
The summer of '69: memorable for some, murder for others...
Detective Susan Ford and her new partner, Detective Jack Tomelli, are called to a crime scene at the local summer stock theater where they find the director of Murder on the Orient Express gruesomely murdered―naked, face caked in makeup, pillow at his feet, wrists and ankles bound by rope. When Susan describes the murder to her dad, retired detective Will Ford, he recognizes the MO of a 1969 serial killer . . . a case he worked fifty years ago.
Will remembers a lot of things about that summer―the Woodstock Festival, the Apollo 11 moon landing, the Miracle Mets―yet he is fuzzy on the details of the decades-old case. But when Susan and Jack discover the old case files, his memories start trickling back. And with each old and new clue, Susan, Jack, and Will must narrow down the pool of suspects before the killer strikes again.
For readers who enjoy mysteries by Richard Osman, Benjamin Stevenson, Robert Dugoni, Anthony Horowitz, Agatha Christie, and Lisa Gardner.
- Goodreads
My Thoughts
The Summer of Love and Death is a thrilling third in the Ford Family mystery series. In this book, Detective Susan Ford is assigned a new partner, Detective Jack Tomelli. They immediately butt heads, because he's a young pretty boy that she makes assumptions about. But they don't have much time to get used to their new work arrangements, because the body of an actor is found at the local playhouse. His murder was staged in a unique and terrifying way. When Susan brings up the case while chatting with her retired detective father, he finds the details to be jarringly familiar. The body was staged just like a victim he investigated as a rookie–in the summer of 1969.
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