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Idyll Hands by Stephanie Gayle

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Idyll Hands

A Thomas Lynch Novel

Stephanie Gayle

Seventh Street Books · Print & ebook · September 4, 2018

Reading lane: Police Procedurals

In the small, sleepy town of Idyll, Connecticut, Police Chief Thomas Lynch assists police officer Michael Finnegan to uncover clues to his sister's disappearance two decades ago.

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Why This Clicks

Old Cases, New Tensions

Two long-buried mysteries make for a police procedural where the past keeps complicating the present.

Come here for

  • A missing-person case that stays unresolved for two decades
  • A murder investigation tangled with secrets inside a police station

Expect

  • Two investigations that gradually converge
  • Tension shaped by what longtime colleagues have kept from one another

Book Details

Authors
Stephanie Gayle
Publisher
Seventh Street Books
Published
September 4, 2018
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Police Procedurals · Women Detectives
Reading lane
Police Procedurals

Affinity

Publisher Categories

  • Mystery

  • Police Procedurals

  • Private Eye Fiction

About This Book

In the small, sleepy town of Idyll, Connecticut, Police Chief Thomas Lynch assists police officer Michael Finnegan to uncover clues to his sister's disappearance two decades ago. Charleston, Massachusetts, 1972: Rookie cop Michael Finnegan gets a call from his mother. His youngest sister, Susan, has disappeared, the same sister who ran away two years earlier. Anxious not to waste police resources, Finnegan advises his family to wait and search on their own. But a week turns...

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In the small, sleepy town of Idyll, Connecticut, Police Chief Thomas Lynch assists police officer Michael Finnegan to uncover clues to his sister's disappearance two decades ago. Charleston, Massachusetts, 1972: Rookie cop Michael Finnegan gets a call from his mother. His youngest sister, Susan, has disappeared, the same sister who ran away two years earlier. Anxious not to waste police resources, Finnegan advises his family to wait and search on their own. But a week turns into two decades, and Susan is never found. Idyll, Connecticut, 1999: In the woods outside of town, a young woman's corpse is discovered, and Detective Finnegan seems unusually disturbed by the case. When Police Chief Thomas Lynch learns about Finnegan's past, he makes a bargain with his officer: He will allow Finnegan to investigate the body found in the woods--if Finnegan lets the bored Lynch secretly look into the disappearance of his sister. Both cases reveal old secrets--about the murder, and about the men inside the Idyll Police Station and what they've been hiding from each other their whole careers.

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