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Reviewed by Donna Stevenson for Readers' Favorite
Evelyn Massey is dead, and she has left a note. Not a suicide note but a note about a secret—the secret is about a dead body in the basement of her home. The note is addressed to Alice, a sergeant in the local police department. As the police investigate Evelyn's death, they discover another note in the house, also addressed to Alice, and this time about a body buried in the pig pen. Now, there are two notes, two secrets, and both bodies are identified as missing persons from sixty years ago. In A Place of Secrets by Shane Peacock, the case grows even more complicated when Sergeant Morrow’s small investigative team uncovers three more bodies, missing persons from sixty years past, too. The detectives now face a daunting question: have they uncovered six murders? Are these deaths connected, and in what way is Alice involved?
Although A Place of Secrets by Shane Peacock involves a police investigation, it does not read like a typical police procedural. The story is about historical cases, so the forensic details and research techniques are limited. The author relies on dialogue from suspects' interviews to reveal clues about the murderer. Every few chapters, the author drops these clues, in effect leaving a trail of breadcrumbs for readers to follow. The number of twists the author used left me completely surprised when the murderer was revealed. I particularly enjoyed the 1960s music references and how the author used various songs to replicate and enhance the action taking place in the story.
