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Find Your Way to My Grave: A Carrie Lisbon Mystery
‘There’s a body! Down by the bridge!’
It’s November 1900 in rural Hope Bridge, New York. The town is bustling with the chaos of construction workers, steam engines, and horse-drawn wagons as a new iron trestle rises over the Duncan Creek. Amid the clamor, the body of the bridge builder is discovered, plunging the community into shock.
Undertaker Carrie Lisbon is once again summoned by Sheriff Delphius Morgan to act as his ‘keen observer.’ She has a knack for solving the problems of the dead. She’s good at what she embalming and laying out bodies, arranging funeral flowers, taking mortuary photographs, and keeping big secrets buried deep.
With Election Day just a week away, Carrie and Morgan’s unconventional partnership is targeted by Morgan’s rival for sheriff, a slick interloper who's running a dirty campaign, and thinks there’s more to Carrie and Del’s relationship than just a dead body. As if a murder case and political turmoil isn’t enough, Morgan’s teenage son, Eddie, goes missing.
When Carrie teams up with Morgan’s steadfast deputy, a scrappy kid from the town dump, and an unlikely ally, they tease out clues to the murder while they search for Eddie. But as personal and political pressures mount, and she gets closer to identifying the killer, those big secrets threaten to become unburied, and Carrie has to make some hard choices to keep them where they are.
It’s November 1900 in rural Hope Bridge, New York. The town is bustling with the chaos of construction workers, steam engines, and horse-drawn wagons as a new iron trestle rises over the Duncan Creek. Amid the clamor, the body of the bridge builder is discovered, plunging the community into shock.
Undertaker Carrie Lisbon is once again summoned by Sheriff Delphius Morgan to act as his ‘keen observer.’ She has a knack for solving the problems of the dead. She’s good at what she embalming and laying out bodies, arranging funeral flowers, taking mortuary photographs, and keeping big secrets buried deep.
With Election Day just a week away, Carrie and Morgan’s unconventional partnership is targeted by Morgan’s rival for sheriff, a slick interloper who's running a dirty campaign, and thinks there’s more to Carrie and Del’s relationship than just a dead body. As if a murder case and political turmoil isn’t enough, Morgan’s teenage son, Eddie, goes missing.
When Carrie teams up with Morgan’s steadfast deputy, a scrappy kid from the town dump, and an unlikely ally, they tease out clues to the murder while they search for Eddie. But as personal and political pressures mount, and she gets closer to identifying the killer, those big secrets threaten to become unburied, and Carrie has to make some hard choices to keep them where they are.
279 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 5, 2024
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December 30, 2024
Find Your Way to My Grave is the third book in the Carrie Lisbon Mystery series by Chris Keefer and let me start off by saying this .... WHAT ?!?!? After reading this story, and the previous books, Keefer knows how to draw you into the story and with each new book in the series, you get deeper and deeper, until this one. In Find Your Way to My Grave, she goes all in with the story and will leave you breathless and emotional.
In Find Your Way to My Grave there are a few storylines for readers to focus on. First it is coming up on election day for the Sheriff and Carrie's friend Del Morgan is the current Sheriff and the gentleman running opposite him is looking for blood !!
Next a young local boy goes to the site where the new bridge is being built since the original one was destroyed during a storm. He goes there at night looking for "treasures", things that the workers may have dropped. Unfortunately when he notices a pocket watch in the mud, he doesn't expect when he pulled on it to have a hand and arm come out of the mud also. The deceased is the man responsible for all the workers in town and the work being done. But he is a man of secrets and Carrie is about to discover them.
And another storyline is that Del's son is missing. He was supposed to arrive in town on Halloween but never showed. Del's wife shows up in town to be close to Del and try to find out what is going on. Del's wife, Katrina, does not know that Del and Carrie have been unfaithful to her and Carrie is put to the test when Del asks Carrie to allow Katrina to stay at her house because there is no other lodging in town.
There is more to each of those storylines as well as others that develop throughout the story but I can't give it all away. Let's just hope that this is enough to get you reading. I will warn you that when you get to the end, Keefer will have you full of emotions and looking forward to the next book .... which is all good !!
In Find Your Way to My Grave there are a few storylines for readers to focus on. First it is coming up on election day for the Sheriff and Carrie's friend Del Morgan is the current Sheriff and the gentleman running opposite him is looking for blood !!
Next a young local boy goes to the site where the new bridge is being built since the original one was destroyed during a storm. He goes there at night looking for "treasures", things that the workers may have dropped. Unfortunately when he notices a pocket watch in the mud, he doesn't expect when he pulled on it to have a hand and arm come out of the mud also. The deceased is the man responsible for all the workers in town and the work being done. But he is a man of secrets and Carrie is about to discover them.
And another storyline is that Del's son is missing. He was supposed to arrive in town on Halloween but never showed. Del's wife shows up in town to be close to Del and try to find out what is going on. Del's wife, Katrina, does not know that Del and Carrie have been unfaithful to her and Carrie is put to the test when Del asks Carrie to allow Katrina to stay at her house because there is no other lodging in town.
There is more to each of those storylines as well as others that develop throughout the story but I can't give it all away. Let's just hope that this is enough to get you reading. I will warn you that when you get to the end, Keefer will have you full of emotions and looking forward to the next book .... which is all good !!
November 12, 2024
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, the third in author Chris Keefer’s history-mystery series featuring Carrie Lisbon, feisty undertaker and sleuth in 1900. After a strong opening, the pacing never flags. I was transported back to the turn of the twentieth century in rural upstate New York with the author’s skillful rendition of historical detail. She handles all the details of the time and place well, ranging from the dirt and bustle of a building boom, a neglected child’s pathos and pluck, the treatment of a black man holding his own in a largely white community, and cruel inuendoes inserted into a local election campaign by a bitter man.
The mystery has a complex plot that unfolds with expert marshalling to a fitting who-dun-it conclusion, coupled with Carrie’s poignant personal journey as she faces her weaknesses and brings her intellect and moral compass to bear to cause the least hurt, where it cannot be avoided. Characterization has depth and resonates with home truths about human frailty, and shows what binds Carrie’s makeshift family (those she cares for and about) together.
Deftly turned phrases and beautifully turned moments abound, including Katrina’s desperate bargaining with God.
I highly recommend this book and author.
The mystery has a complex plot that unfolds with expert marshalling to a fitting who-dun-it conclusion, coupled with Carrie’s poignant personal journey as she faces her weaknesses and brings her intellect and moral compass to bear to cause the least hurt, where it cannot be avoided. Characterization has depth and resonates with home truths about human frailty, and shows what binds Carrie’s makeshift family (those she cares for and about) together.
Deftly turned phrases and beautifully turned moments abound, including Katrina’s desperate bargaining with God.
I highly recommend this book and author.
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