River Running Backwards
A Winston Radhauser Mystery #9
by Susan Clayton-Goldner
Published: November 11, 2020
Publisher: Tirgearr Publishing
Genre: Mystery, Suspense, Thriller
Blurb:
If Detective Winston Radhauser knew how many skeletons visiting his dying uncle would unearth, he might have stayed in Ashland. But he might never have learned the truth about his past.
During a deathbed confession, Winston Radhauser learns his parents are still alive and his mother is in a psychiatric facility having confessed to the murder of his three-month-old sister. After her confession, his mother stopped talking and hasn’t uttered a word in forty-three years.
Torn between grief for his uncle and anger at the lies he’s been told, Radhauser sets out to discover the truth about his family. As he conducts his own investigation and uncovers more evidence, Radhauser realizes the police took the easy way out by blaming his mother. He is convinced she is innocent. During his investigation, he unveils one more dark secret. Will this one lead him to the person who murdered his three-month-old sister, and vindicate his mother?
My Review:
Detective Winston Radhauser has had a hard life with losing his parents when he was a small child. Years later he lost his wife and son in a car accident. His wife Gracie has cancer. Now he has just learned that his uncle the man who raised him is dying.
Wind’s aunt calls him to ask if he would come to see his uncle before he passed as he would like to talk to him. On his death bed, Wind’s uncle tells him his parents are still alive. His mother was admitted to a psychiatric facility for killing his three-month-old baby sister and where his father is no one knows.
After hearing the details of that awful night that his baby sister was killed Wind is not sure that his mother killed his sister. His investigation opens up more and more secrets along with some memories of his own of that night. If his mother did not kill his baby sister then who did and why?
River Running Backwards will keep you guessing from beginning to end only releasing its secrets very slowly until you are bouncing on your seat wanting to know who did it. River Running Backwards is a very heart-wrenching story giving the old heartstrings a tug.
I love all the characters. I especially love Detective Winston Radhauser, his wife Gracie, their daughter Lizzy and their son Jonathan. I would like to get to know his mother and aunt better hopefully in future books. I have read every one of the Winston Radhauser Mystery books and loved each and every one of them.
Susan is an awesome writer who knows how to make you feel as if you have known her characters since forever. Susan knows how to make you feel what the characters are feeling. When you pick up one of her books you feel as if you have stepped right off the page into a new world as if you are one of the characters. I can’t wait to read more of Winston Radhauser Mystery.
As always I highly recommend River Running Backwards as well as all of the Winston Radhauser Mystery stories. Be sure and one-click your copy of River Running Backwards and all the Winston Radhauser Mystery stories today!
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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