Secrets that defy time!
5 stars!
Delightful heroine, Tori Winters, returns, and it is non-stop excitement from the start.
Murder’s Legacy is the second book in author Anita Dickason’s super Tori Winters Mystery series, and it is an exciting followup to the debut, Deadly Keepsakes. With its engaging main character and her growing group of friends and “found” family, I had been looking forward to her continued adventures since the last page of the previous book; I was not disappointed.
Tori Winters, although hailing from Missouri originally, is a bit of a steel magnolia. Her early life and career, first as a nurse in an ER setting and later in hospice, have perfectly honed those tendencies. When she gets her dander up, get out of her way or suffer the tongue-lashing you will most certainly have deserved.
I’ve really enjoyed her home renovations with the descriptions of the old and the upgrades, and I liked how she defers decisions to the friends who have thrown in with her to make the Red Door Inn a success and their future. Her relationships have grown immensely over the two books of the series, not only with her women friends and partners but with David as well.
The fictional characters of the very real town of Granbury run the gamut of personalities, and much like any small town, they all know each other and their business. Mia is the one to go to for critical information and to understand the historically pivotal relationships; she’s got her finger on the town’s pulse, not to mention being completely in tune with Tori herself. They have developed a great partnership, and the five women together are a great team.
The story’s action starts immediately and never lets up. Once again, the house yields another long-held secret that drives the story’s events. Recurring characters and new keep things moving ahead, and I never knew who was behind what was happening. I liked that the plot incorporates some of the realities of getting a new business up and running, along with permitting and working with a city. Hopefully, the actual Granbury isn’t anything like what Tori is dealing with. Surely not. Myra continued to try to stir up ill will, and I laughed about the mayor’s wife’s visit and her failure to buy in to Myra’s negativity. In the end, I was very happy with the outcome and am, again, left waiting with great anticipation for the next chapter in Tori’s continuing story.
With its delightful heroine, great small-town supporting characters, and exciting non-stop plot, I recommend MURDER’S LEGACY to cozy mystery readers who like strong female protagonists, storylines tied to factual events, and fans of the author’s previous work, especially the previous novel in this series.
Award-winning Author Anita Dickason is a twenty-two-year veteran of the Dallas Police Department. She served as a patrol officer, undercover narcotics detective, advanced accident investigator, tactical officer, and first female sniper on the Dallas SWAT team.
Anita writes about what she knows, cops and crime. Her police background provides an unending source of inspiration for her plots and characters. Many incidents and characters portrayed in her books are based on personal experience. For her, the characters are the fun part of writing as she never knows where they will take her. There is always something out of the ordinary in her stories.
In Anita’s debut novel, Sentinels of the Night, she created an elite FBI Unit, the Trackers. Since then, she has added three more Tracker crime thrillers, Going Gone!, A u 7 9, and Operation Navajo, which are not a series and can be read in any order, and Deadly Business, a crime thriller.
As a Texas author, many of Anita’s books are based in Texas, or there is a link to Texas. When she stepped outside of the Tracker novels and wrote Not Dead and the Tori Winters Mysteries series, she set them in the small Texas communities of Meridian and Granbury, respectively.
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Agreed, agreed! I love the friendships that have bloomed, and how this expanding group has got Tori’s back. Just past the mid-point and the tension is building! Ready to sit and finish this book! Thanks for a great review.
Knowing you had read the first book, I was really hoping you’d like the second. Thank you so very much. This was a fun book to write.
I’m so looking forward to the next one, too!