Flying Shoes by Lisa Howorth (Bloomsbury, June 2014)
Mary Byrd Thornton has gone about her average life in
Mississippi, taking care of her husband and two children, never forgetting the
step-brother who was molested and murdered forty years ago and whose killer was
never caught. Now she is contacted by
the police in Virginia who think they have a viable suspect but need Mary Byrd
and her family to come to Virginia where they will have to confront and relive
this terrible tragedy. As Mary Byrd
makes plans to travel to Virginia, she faces a tragedy in the family of her
housekeeper in addition to the ghosts that haunt her own family. On her way home to her family, she makes one
more detour at the funeral of a friend, but returns home ready to be a wife and
mother, maybe a little more attentive and present than before. The plot line that explores the life of Mary
Byrd and her family since the death of her step-brother and how they react to
it possibly being solved after almost thirty years would be enough to sustain a
strong narrative, but first time novelist Lisa Howorth adds layers of
interesting, well-developed characters to further develop this already
emotionally resonant plot.
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