Darkness, Sing Me a Song
A Holland Taylor Mystery
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- USD 12.99
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- USD 12.99
Publisher Description
David Housewright’s Edgar Award-winning Holland Taylor series returns with a case of murder resulting from tragic, twisted drama in an extremely wealthy family in Darkness, Sing Me a Song.
Holland Taylor is a PI who does simple background checks and other mostly unchallenging cases. Still wounded by the long-ago death of his wife and daughter, and newly mourning a recently failed relationship, Taylor doesn’t have much interest in more challenging work. But almost by accident, he finds himself in the middle of the crime of the century.
Eleanor Barrington, the doyenne of a socially prominent family of great wealth, has been arrested for the murder of Emily Denys, her son’s fiancée. Barrington made no secret of her disdain for the victim, convinced that she was trying to take advantage of her son and her family.
Taylor had been brought in to do a full background check on Emily, only to discover that both her name and her background were fabricated. Before he could learn more, she was murdered—shot in the head outside her apartment.
Barrington had been overheard threatening to kill her son’s fiancé and an eyewitness claims to have seen her kill Emily. But that’s not the worst of it. Barrington’s own son has even worse accusations to make against her.
Caught in the dark tangle of a twisted family and haunted by his own past, Taylor finds that the truth is both elusive and dangerous.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Edgar-winner Housewright's welcome fourth outing for St. Paul, Minn., PI Holland Taylor, last seen in 1999's Dearly Departed, Holland tries to clear wealthy client Eleanor Barrington of fatally shooting Emily Denys, who was dating her son, Joel. The evidence is against Eleanor: she threatened to kill Emily, who was struck by a bullet from a nine-millimeter handgun, a weapon that Eleanor purchased years before, though it's now missing. Complications follow. Joel accuses his mother of the murder and of sexually abusing him; a neighbor claims that she saw Eleanor shoot Emily in the head; and the identity of the victim, whose past is shrouded in mystery, comes into question. A connection between Emily's murder and that of the mayor of Arona, Wis., puts Holland on a trail that involves a fracking company and a group of right-wing extremists. Meanwhile, Holland has to deal with Devon, Eleanor's volatile 16-year-old daughter, who seems to have a crush on him. The knots are many and messy, and Holland shows he has the wit and character to untangle them.
