Reviewed By: Ruth Jordan - RAM
Jackson Park
Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC
Charlotte Carter
Class/Genre: Mystery
Series: Cook County Mysteries
August, 2003, A Ballentine Trade Paperback 224 pages / $12.95
Jackson Park will take you back in time. It’s the sixties and Martin Luther King has just been assassinated. In downtown Chicago a young black woman struggles to make sense of the world around her. Rescued from a life that could have been filled with rage and hopelessness Cass is now attending university , thanks to her grandparents Woodson and Ivy. When an old neighbor asks her grandfather for help finding his missing grand-daughter the family gets involved. At the same time Cass’s best friend on campus disappears after a cryptic conversation. How do these two stories meet?
Trust Carter to spin a web worthy of a black widow. She has a true understanding of the time and place she’s writing of. The characters in Jackson Park are wonderful. All of them. There’s almost too much story, it moves along fast and then bam, you’re at the next sequence in the book. In a very interesting mystery the reader is presented with the facts but the motivations aren‘t always well done and the action sequences come out of nowhere off the page or on.
With her attention to detail throughout so much of the book the mystery itself is a bit of a let down only because you expect so much from this very obvious writing talent. Satisfying. I’m glad I’ve found Charlotte Carter and look forward to reading more.
Ruth Jordan - RAM
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