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In A Song for You, Betsy Thornton returns to her dynamic character Chloe Newcombe, victim advocate at the Cochise County Attorney’s Office.
A heavy storm hits Dudley, Arizona, wreaking havoc. A local woman drowns in a flash flood. A heavy drinker falls into the draining system and is finally found a few days later. The Barnetts, who moved into town six months ago, are unhappy to learn that a retaining wall on their property will need immediate fixing. And they’re even more dismayed when the workers’ digging unearths a dead body.
The man’s body has obviously been there a long time. When Rachel Macabee reads about it in the local paper, she is convinced that the dead man was a member of the band that her mom sang with when Rachel was a little girl. He had disappeared just a few days before her mother was killed. The band members assumed that he had left in search of a better job, but Rachel had never believed that---and now she knows she was right.
She doesn’t trust the police---they were wrong the first time. So she approaches private detective Brian Flynn, a former police officer as well as Chloe Newcombe’s former lover. He agrees to try to discover what really happened. And after all these years, Rachel may finally find her mother’s killer.
Betsy Thornton pens the stories about the inhabitants of this very real-life mountain town with great style. A Song for You promises more atmosphere, likable characters, and another entertaining puzzle.
- Sales Rank: #2370294 in Books
- Published on: 2008-09-30
- Released on: 2008-09-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.59" h x 1.02" w x 5.79" l, .90 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 304 pages
From Publishers Weekly
When workmen uncover skeletal remains behind a retaining wall in Thornton's well-crafted fifth mystery to feature Cochise County, Ariz., victim advocate Chloe Newcombe (after 2004's Dead for the Winter), the body turns out to be that of Wynn Wykoff, a member of the band Point of No Return, who disappeared 17 years earlier. The news of this macabre find prompts Rachel Macabee, the daughter of the band's singer, Annie Glenn, to hire Chloe's private detective friend, Brian Flynn, to look into her mother's unsolved murder, which occurred around the same time at the same location. Aided by Chloe, Flynn interviews the people originally questioned about Anna's murder, including former band members and their hangers-on. After Chloe discovers a link between Annie's and Wynn's homicides, additional lives are suddenly at risk. Appealing, nuanced characters, a simmering Southwest backdrop and an artfully unpredictable conclusion make this one a winner. (Oct.)
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About the Author
Betsy Thornton works for the Cochise County Attorney’s Victim Witness Program as a victim compensation advocate and a victim advocate. She lives in Bisbee, Arizona.
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Chapter one RACHEL AND HER MOTHER, THE SINGER, were at the mall, at Dillard’s, or was it Macy’s? They didn’t have the same taste, not at all, but her mom kept pointing out clothes she thought would be nice for Rachel—bright print tops, too bright and with sequins; Indian cotton gauzy skirts, floaty and see-through; ridiculous tie-dyed wide pants. "Try something on," her mom kept insisting, grabbing more and more stuff. "Just try one thing. You might even like it." Heaps of stuff, mountains, and her mother kept on piling the bright happy clothes in her arms till Rachel could hardly see her anymore. "You need something new," her mother, the singer, said. "We have to find a song for you." In the dark, Rachel opened her eyes. "Mom?" she whispered. She knew better, it was just that little space before she woke up completely—sometimes when she dreamed of her mom it wasn’t like that, her mother would be just at the edge of her vision, not quite real, but this time she was so sharp, so clear. This dream had started out, she and her mom, just like she wanted her mother to be, shopping with her now that she was lost to her, gone, gone forever and ever, then everything suddenly felt so crazy with the ending. Rachel took a few deep yoga breaths. Even though she couldn’t think why—it was just a bunch of piled-up clothes—that ending disturbed her; filled her with dread, dread that something awful was about to happen. When she was younger she’d had dreams like this a lot but as time went by she’d had them less and less— in fact, she hadn’t had one in several months, maybe longer. Oh, God, were they starting up again? Why? She’d tried so hard to allow no stress into her life whatsoever. Rachel took a few more yoga breaths, counting to ten on the in breath, ten on the out. You’re fine. But she wasn’t. Beside her, her husband Scott lay sleeping on his stomach, wearing just a pair of plaid boxers, covers thrown off though it was a little chilly—the air-conditioning was set too high. Scottie, she thought, at least I have Scottie, so handsome, so perfect; an attorney, working as a misdemeanor prosecutor with the Pima County Attorney’s Office. Mustn’t wake Scottie—he tried so hard to be supportive that sometimes in a weird way she felt as though she were working even harder supporting him at being supportive. The muscles in Rachel’s neck and upper back were all tensed up, no. What time was it? The red numerals of the black digital clock showed 2:47. She slipped out from under the covers and went barefoot, out of the bedroom, through the living room, out the sliding glass doors to the pool. She sat down on the edge and let her feet dangle in the water, swishing them back and forth, making little waves. For the first time in quite a while it hadn’t rained yesterday or during the night. Late summer in Tucson, a cloudy night; the moon shining soft silver behind clouds and thunder grumbling somewhere over the mountains. Mingled with the chlorine from the pool was the smell of rain. The monsoons had been pretty active this year. Somewhere in Tucson it would be raining right now probably, raining outside of Tucson maybe in one of the little desert towns, over in Cochise County. In Willcox, or Douglas, or even Dudley. Rachel sighed. Except for one brief afternoon to testify at the trial, she hadn’t been back to Dudley since her dad came and took her away right after her mom was killed. Now her mom had been dead for fifteen years, no—more like seventeen. At this point, Rachel didn’t know if her memories of her mother were even real or just memories of something she’d been told or even seen in a movie and connected with. Palm trees rose beyond the cinderblock wall that bounded the yard, their silhouettes looking strangely like... like Sideshow Bob from The Simpsons. It should have been funny but it wasn’t, it was creepy. She took some more deep yoga breaths, ten counts in, ten counts out, but the muscles in her back kept tensing and her head felt light, bright, something whined like the sound of a saw far away but it wasn’t real and she knew no one else could hear it. Suddenly she smelled the sharp licorice tang of fennel, the fennel that grew in the drainage ditches in Dudley—it always happened during the rainy season when the fennel was almost as tall as she was, ten years old, and what was the song that played everywhere that summer? Madonna sang "Like a Virgin," but her mom liked Sade, "Is It a Crime," "The Sweetest Taboo." But no, weren’t those songs earlier?The whining grew louder, like a pack of hornets, why worry, it was so long ago, no one was going to come and get her, it wasn’t real fear, it was anxiety. Did she still have some Ativan? She hadn’t needed it for a while. She pushed herself up and went back inside, down the hall to the bathroom. She opened the medicine cabinet. Thank god—there it was, the amber-colored prescription bottle. But when she took it down it was empty. What the fuck? Seeing it empty made her realize just how much she needed it right now. Why would you keep an empty bottle in the medicine cabinet? Why? Rage made her light-headed. Empty. It was so stupid, so unbelievably stupid, she threw the bottle as hard as she could against the wall. The bottle was plastic and light, it didn’t even break, just fell harmlessly onto the tiled floor. "Rachel?" She turned around. Scottie was standing in the doorway, blinking. "You okay?" Her anger had dissipated some of the anxiety. It was still there but bearable. "Oh, Scottie, I’m sorry." She felt guilty. "You have to get up early for work. I didn’t mean to wake you." "What’s wrong?" "The usual," said Rachel. Scottie rubbed his eyes. He looked so sweet standing there, so concerned and so tired. He must be so sick of this, she thought. How can he stand me? "Your mom?" he said. Rachel nodded. "Sweetheart." She knew he didn’t mean to, but he let a note of exasperation creep into his voice. "What can I do?" What could he do? She could see all his good qualities; he was there for her when she needed him, a nice-looking man who worked hard. She saw him standing there but he was on a par with the porcelain sink, the pink towel left to dry on the shower rod, the open medicine cabinet. She couldn’t feel his presence, as if she had just conjured up a hologram. In fact, she thought, that’s my whole life, not real, a hologram. "Nothing," she said. "There’s nothing you can do. Go back to bed, sweetie, okay?" Excerpted from A Song For You by Betsy ThorntonCopyright © 2008 by Betsy ThorntonPublished in October 2008 by St. Martin’s PressAll rights reserved. This work is protected under copyright laws and reproduction is strictly prohibited. Permission to reproduce the material in any manner or medium must be secured from the Publisher.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
An author I enjoy.
By J. Omre
I found this book hard to put down at times. I loved the characters, the choice of location and the pace of the story. I have really liked all of her books and just wish she would write faster. The only thing keeping me from a higher star count is the ending. For me the final few pages were a something of a letdown. It's seems as if the author just lost momentum and decided to stop. Aside from that the book is a good read and if you haven't read her other books, I recommend you do.
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A cold case solved
By Mark P. Sadler
When heavy rains flood the streets the hilly town of Dudley, AZ the renovation behind a retaining wall unearths the body of a man long buried. When Rachael reads of the discovery she reckons it belongs to a missing member of a band that her mother, Annie, sang with; a man who disappeared just days before her mother was killed.
The accused killer, let of on a technicality, has never been guilty in Rachael's eyes and so rather trust the police and judicial system that had ignored do many possibilities the first time out she hires a private detective, Brian Flynn to discover the truth. Flynn is aided by a former old flame, and local victim advocate, Chloe Newcombe.
The story is told through the point of view of Chloe, who fills us in very neatly on the local inhabitants of Dudley, the history of the town and leads us to discover that members of the band that Annie, then a young care-free hippy-type, fronted for are still in the area. Rachel, scared of her shadow ever since discovering her mother's body as a young girl, takes on a voyage of personal discovery and leaving her comfortable home in Tucson and re-visits her mother's old haunts and friends for the first time since her father removed her all those years ago.
Suddenly other bodies are discovered as the real murderer, hidden in plain view all this time, finds themselves close to be discovered, and Rachel may be in mortal danger. Can Chloe and Flynn put the pieces together fast enough before another innocent is taken? Thornton leads us through twists and turns, feeding us red-herrings and false clues at every turn in the road, in this cleverly thought-out twisting tale of mystery and mayhem.
A Song for You: A Mystery (Chloe Newcombe Mysteries)
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
exciting private investigative whodunit
By A Customer
Seventeen years ago in Dudley, Arizona, Rachel Macabee comes home to find her mother Annie lying in bed with her face blown away. The police arrested her mom's boyfriend Kurt because he lent Annie Glenn his gun, which turned out to be the murder weapon. Rachel never believed he shot her mom and was pleased when he was acquitted. Except for testifying at his trial, she never returned to Dudley.
A nice couple buys a home in Dudley when the monsoon rains ruin a retaining wall. They hire people to dig out the dirt only to find a human skeleton buried there. The remains are identified as Wynn Wyckoff, who performed in the same band as Annie did. Rachel sees the obvious connection and hires private investigator Bryan Flynn to look into her mother's cold case murder. Since he is busy at the moment, his new employee and ex girlfriend, former victim's advocate Chloe Newcombe leads the inquiry; Chloe is leaving the job she loved due to an incompetent interfering political hack new supervisor. They work separately on the case seeking clues to the homicides and hoping they can bring closure to Rachel, who just came home, but remains traumatized after all these years and in spite of the love of her father and her husband.
This is an exciting private investigative whodunit enhanced by colorful secondary characters who the readers meet mostly through the inquiries of Chloe and to a degree Bryan especially in Dudley. Although there are too many points of view and the ending seems inadequate, Chloe makes the tale work as she learns on the job how to interview, find clues, and survive; all part of remedial private investigation 099. Fans will enjoy her efforts as her work coupled with Rachel's return to Dudley place both in peril from a clever just out of sight ever watching killer.
Harriet Klausner
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