Bloody Creek Murder
A Winston Radhauser
Mystery #6
by Susan
Clayton-Goldner
Published: July 31,
2019
Publisher: TirgearrPublishing
Genre: Mystery,
Suspense, Thriller
Blurb:
Five days after a tragic fall kills her 10-year-old son,
Blair Bradshaw, an actress with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, is found dead.
Her husband, Franklin Bradshaw, an esteemed criminal defense attorney,
discovers her body. It is carefully displayed under her son's tree house, among
the flowers and other memorabilia left at the site of his death.
Franklin insists her death is a suicide brought on by the
loss of their son. But Detective Radhauser finds evidence at the scene—bloody
shoe prints on one of the rocks in the nearby creek, the careful way the body
is arranged, and the fact that no weapon is found near her body—leads him to
believe otherwise.
Was it grief that killed her? Or was it murder?
My Review:
Two little boys are playing as they do every day after
school when tragedy strikes. One is killed while the other loses his best
friend. One day after school is about to change one little boy’s life forever.
A woman is found dead in the same place where her son died.
Everyone believes it to be suicide that a mother is so distraught over losing
her son that she cannot live without him.
A baby went missing ten years ago and every year the baby’s
parents go see Detective Radhauser for an update on their baby. Will this be
the year that he can give them some good news for a change? Has their baby been
found?
I love these Winston Radhauser Mystery stories. Each and
every one of them is told in a way that they touch you deeply and they make you
feel so much. Each story pulls at your heart and leaves you in tears. I love each
and every one of these stories and the people whose lives are turned upside
down.
Susan knows how to tell a story or tell the stories of our characters
and Detective Radhauser knows how to speak for the dead. He gathers up all the
information and learns their stories so he can tell them and make the bad
people pay for the wrongs they have done.
I love how the parents of one little boy deals with the
situation they find their selves in. I love how they asked the little boy what
he would like to do because it is his life they are trying to decide and he is
the one who has to live it. I love how the parents are so mature to make one
little boy happy. It just goes to show how much love these people have in their
hearts and how they put others before themselves. Extended families are awesome
or so I think well not think as I know a few myself and I am happily a part of
one myself.
Bloody Creek Murder is one of those stories that will stay
with me for a long time to come as with all of Susan Clayton-Goldner’s novels
seem to do. So now I am anxiously waiting the next Winston Radhauser Mystery
and recommend all of Susan’s books to all mystery fans.
AUTHOR BIO:
Susan Clayton-Goldner was born in New
Castle, Delaware and grew up with four brothers along the banks of the Delaware
River. She is a graduate of the University of Arizona's Creative Writing
Program and has been writing most of her life. Her novels have been finalists
for The Hemingway Award, the Heeken Foundation Fellowship, the Writers
Foundation and the Publishing On-line Contest. Susan won the National Writers'
Association Novel Award twice for unpublished novels and her poetry was
nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Her work has appeared in numerous
literary journals and anthologies including Animals as Teachers and Healers,
published by Ballantine Books, Our Mothers/Ourselves, by the Greenwood
Publishing Group, The Hawaii Pacific Review-Best of a Decade, and New
Millennium Writings. A collection of her poems, A Question of Mortality was released in 2014 by Wellstone Press.
Prior to writing full time, Susan worked as the Director of Corporate Relations
for University Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona.
Susan
shares a life in Grants Pass, Oregon with her husband, Andreas, her fictional
characters, and more books than one person could count.
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