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Lädt ... The Cross Kisses Backvon C. R. Corwin
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Fiction.
Mystery.
HTML: Most people think of the morgue as that cold and sterile facility where medical examiners do their necessary, albeit dreadful, work. Less familiar is the other type of morgue, the dry and dusty version, the newspaper morgue, usually housed in the basements and backrooms of newspaper buildings, where old news clippings are filed away. Dolly Madison Sprowls has been in charge of the Hannawa Herald-Union's morgue for more than forty years. She is gruff and salty, well past the age of retirement, and the unchallenged queen of her ink-stained domain. Reporters call her Morgue Mama but only behind her back. Maddy Sprowls' well-ordered world gets turned upside down when the paper hires twenty-four-year-old Aubrey McGinty for its police beat. Aubrey loses no time in questioning the conviction of Sissy James for the murder of televangelist Buddy Wing. It's true that Sissy had quickly confessedâ??live on televisionâ??to poisoning the famous preacher, and the evidence does seem overwhelming. But the ambitious young reporter doesn't believe Sissy is guilty. Aubrey enlists the help of Morgue Mama to dig into the morgue's files. Their search for the truth soon becomes harrowingâ??and dangerousâ??as they uncover enough suspects to fill a church with those who do the devil Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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As the story unfolds she teams up with a new crime reporter,Aubrey McGinty,who is as young as Sprowls is elderly,go ahead and feisty with it.
Very soon they investigate the poisoning of a TV evangelist,by a somewhat unusual method,and they also attempt to prove the innocence of the person that the police have quickly arrested for the crime.
The story-line was quite clever and opens up the possibility of further stories in the series.My only slight quibble was that the title should have been "The Cross Kisses Back" which I think a good one in itself. The Morgue Mamma part would have been better used as,say,"A Morgue Mamma Crime Novel".
I do look forward to the second book in the series. (