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Cemetery Plot
Two reporters investigate a grave robbery in a small Illinois town. It’s 1986. The tombstone says a teenage boy went into the coffin in 1941.
One reporter, Brian Morrison, is about forty, estranged from his wife. He’s smart, sensitive, literate, overly focused. He’s like a cat chasing string, quick to pounce.
The other reporter, Lee Ann Thomas, 30, is smart and sassy. She can manage Morrison—well, almost. But she is mercurial, leaving Morrison to wonder what she’s thinking, and if he can trust her.
Beginning in the graveyard, the two get onto a story that might produce a Pulitzer for their little paper. In chasing it, they lift the lid on killers, crooks, perverts and zealots, untangling a web of greed, deceit and murder that goes back almost half a century. They also unveil a love story, uncover a mystery, and bring unsung heroism to light.
Cemetery Plot is about the real world of good small-town newspapers that have worked for generations in America to keep things honest for people in their communities.
One reporter, Brian Morrison, is about forty, estranged from his wife. He’s smart, sensitive, literate, overly focused. He’s like a cat chasing string, quick to pounce.
The other reporter, Lee Ann Thomas, 30, is smart and sassy. She can manage Morrison—well, almost. But she is mercurial, leaving Morrison to wonder what she’s thinking, and if he can trust her.
Beginning in the graveyard, the two get onto a story that might produce a Pulitzer for their little paper. In chasing it, they lift the lid on killers, crooks, perverts and zealots, untangling a web of greed, deceit and murder that goes back almost half a century. They also unveil a love story, uncover a mystery, and bring unsung heroism to light.
Cemetery Plot is about the real world of good small-town newspapers that have worked for generations in America to keep things honest for people in their communities.
358 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 18, 2014
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May 9, 2019
Entertaining reading with lots of subplots and an unusual outcome. It could have ended in a variety of ways and I could have made a case for different conclusions. The author really leaves it open as to how several of the subplots could have ended and who did what. Very enjoyable reading, I look forward to reading more by Tom.
November 3, 2014
Beautifully written and constructed, Tom Bender creates a realistic page turner mystery that keeps the reader on her toes. The story begins in 1986 in Stanton, Illinois, when reporter Brian Morrison is tapped to investigate a grave robbery in nearby Goddard County. What he and another reporter, bright and sassy Lee Ann Thomas, discover unearths a web of murder and subterfuge spinning back fifty years. As each puzzle piece falls into place, Brian and Lee Ann find themselves stalked by a killer. In a story full of action and intrigue, Bender weaves in humor, history and love.
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