Book Review: The Stain of Guilt

Reviewed By: Pat Reid - RAM

The Stain of Guilt     Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Linda Amey
Class/Genre:   Mystery   Woman Main Character   Amateur Sleuth   Thriller
Series: Blair Emerson # 3
iUniverse, 2004, 241 pps.

Third in the Blair Emerson series, The Stain of Guilt can be enjoyed if you’ve never read a Blair Emerson novel but you will enjoy it more if you’ve read Bury Her Sweetly and At Dead of Night.

Blair and her daughter Brandi are still trying to forge a stable relationship and overcome Brandi’s OCD problems. Brandi was kidnapped when she was a baby and has finally found her way back to her mother. Lenny the man she thought was her father is now out on parole and Brandi has corresponded with him with permission from her mother. Lenny’s deceased wife Jewell kidnapped Brandi but now Lenny is attempting to straighten out his life.

Brandi’s father has just been elected Senator and Brandi is to make a trip to Washington with her father and her stepmother. This proposed trip makes both mother and daughter increasingly nervous since Brandi’s father knows nothing about her OCD. At the same time a true crime book is published telling the story of Brandi’s kidnapping and even publishing pictures of Brandi as a little girl. Brandi has never set foot in the funeral home run by her mother but decides at this stressful time to do so which almost leads to tragedy.

Lenny is suspected by all parties of being the culprit in providing the pictures and sets out to prove his innocence.

A strange woman comes to Live Oak and tries to get close to Blair and Brandi. Taylor McFadden, a young man whose girl friend was injured severely in a car jacking and Rylie Thorp a small time crook all cross paths and Linda Amey takes you to an exciting conclusion.

Pat Reid - RAM

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