Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Review: Bloody Creek Murder (A Winston Radhauser Mystery #6) by Susan Clayton-Goldner @SusanCGoldner


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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