Deeper Than the Dead by Debra Webb Published by Thomas & Mercer on August 6, 2024
Genres: Crime Thriller, Police Procedurals
Series: Vera Boyett #1
Pages: 398
Format: ARC, eBook
Source: NetGalley, Publisher
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Crime analyst and newly disgraced deputy police chief Vera Boyett doesn’t visit home often, and she certainly doesn’t venture back into the cave on her family land. But when the remains of her long-missing stepmother are discovered, Vera will have to face a past that threatens all she is.
She and her sister Eve had a fairy-tale childhood: good until it was tragic, with a stepmother they never found a bond with. At least they had each other, a baby half-sister, and a mutual devotion that would have them do the unthinkable.
It’s a summer in small-town Tennessee, so thick with humidity it could drown you and so rife with secrets it could smother you. And deep beneath the surface, there are more bodies than you’d think…
My Thoughts
“Deeper Than the Dead” is focused on disgraced ex-cop Vera Boyett and her inner conflict of keeping secret family stories while trying to solve the mystery of human remains found in a cave on her family property.
This ingeniously written mystery keeps the reader in constant suspense until the end. Every time I was sure I had solved the murder mystery, there would be another twist, and my clean theory would go. At the climax, I had gone through many different suspects, which made the big reveal all the more surprising.
The author expertly weaves a complex net of doubt and curiosity that makes you itch with a desire to know more and more. I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves a great who dun it.
Thank you to Thomas & Mercer, and NetGalley for allowing me to read and review this book.
About Debra Webb
DEBRA WEBB is the USA Today bestselling author of more than 170 novels, including reader favorites the Finley O’Sullivan and Devlin & Falco series. She is the recipient of the prestigious Romantic Times Career Achievement Award for Romantic Suspense as well as numerous Reviewers Choice Awards. In 2012 Debra was honored as the first recipient of the esteemed L. A. Banks Warrior Woman Award for her courage, strength, and grace in the face of adversity. Recently Debra was awarded the distinguished Centennial Award for having achieved publication of her 100th novel.
With more than four million books in print in numerous languages and countries, Debra’s love of storytelling goes back to her childhood when her mother bought her an old typewriter in a tag sale. Born in Alabama, Debra grew up on a farm. She spent every available hour exploring the world around her and creating her stories. She wrote her first story at age nine and her first romance at thirteen. It wasn’t until she spent three years working for the Commanding General of the US Army in Berlin behind the Iron Curtain and a five-year stint in NASA’s Shuttle Program that she realized her true calling. A collision course between suspense and romance was set. Since then she has expanded her work into some of the darkest places the human psyche dares to go.
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