The Secrets We Keep - Jarvis, Angela

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Résumé :
With this second novel in the Florida Sheriff Deputies Murder Mysteries, Angela Jarvis establishes herself as a clear voice in the genre. She knows how to reveal small-town secrets, especially when they relate to murder! - Martha Griswold, Online Critics Corner Dagan Murphy is a small-town deputy whose 16-year-old sister went missing 10 years ago. His father, also a deputy, died never knowing what happened to his little girl. On his deathbed, he made Dagan promise him he would never stop looking for her. When the remains of a young girl turn up in the most unusual place - the old abandoned children's mental asylum - once again Dagan becomes consumed with finding out what happened on that day so long ago when his sister simply vanished, and wants to know if the remains could be hers. His investigation is hindered by another deputy who has had it out for him since high school, a sheriff who thinks he has dedicated too much of his life to his sister's now cold case, and small-town secrets. Secrets - that someone would kill to keep from coming to light, and that someone else would kill to expose. Will he be able to work through the tangle of lies and deceit and finally be able to solve his sister's disappearance, and catch a killer who nobody would ever suspect?...

Biographie:
After health issues caused Angela Jarvis to quit his job as a Physical Therapy Technician, she decided to devote more time to writing, which she has loved since her early teens. Angela lives in a very small town on the southern edge of Lake Okeechobee with hery husband, daughter, and several fur babies. She has a grown son who is a sheriff deputy in the Florida Panhandle. He is a good source of information about law enforcement. I find that ideas abound in a small town, says Angela. Watching and listening is where all my best ideas come from.

Sommaire:
Life in small southern towns is not always as pleasant as it seems. In this third book of the Florida Sheriff Deputies Murder Mystery Series, Tony Giovanni returns from The Wages of Sin to partner with Dagan Murphy of The Secrets We Keep. The old college roommates are working together on some leads that seem to have ties to their most recent cases. Donald Lockhart, the preacher from The Wages of Sin, has some family connections in the panhandle of Florida and they seem to tie into a case that Dagan just finished working on that involved his own family, not to mention some older cold cases that have gone unsolved for years. The Oakville's Children's Asylum once again seems to rear its ugly head to bring misery years after it was closed down for mistreatment of the patients housed there. Now being remodeled to become a fancy resort, all construction gets put on hold for yet another set of remains that have been found by the construction crew. Dagan and Tony delve deeper into the old records and the families connected to it, and soon will learn that blood is not always thicker than water. Sometimes that blood is so tainted, that some families will abandon those who they think will ruin their names and reputations. What is the evidence that binds all three cases together, and how will it affect those who have suffered the most?...