An enigmatic young woman hires an ex-Army CID Officer to investigate a decades old homicide case that is eerily similar to a recent gruesome murder of a young woman in a small coastal southern town with a dark and violent history.
Great first chapter. I ran out of time today before I could finish it but the initial segment where Cora met the engineer was a grabber. I absolutely had to finish it despite needing to be elsewhere. I do hope Cora will be a major character in the rest of the story because I’m already rooting for her.
One minor flaw that you might want to fix. The phrase "the hippocampus of her brain stem was taking a slow breath," is inaccurate. The hippocampus is a portion of the medial temporal lobe, situated well above the highest level of the brainstem. Why not substitute the portion of the autonomic NS that tends to work against the adrenalin-secreting sympathetic nervous system? The phrase would then read: "her parasympathetic nerves reined in her adrenal gland," or "her hypothalamus told her lungs, ’take a slow breath," or some such.
If you’re curious about the hippocampus, go to my blog "brainandmemories.com"
Can Shelby Darnell, a cop from the impoverished Outside World of 2096, solve the bizarre Stack Murders despite malicious interference from Portal World cop, Barton Sledge?
A Harvard Law student stumbles into the seedy world of a Boston mafia gambling racket after participating in online gambling to pay for his tuition. Will he succeed in juggling classes, the Mafia, and his crush on his roommate’s boyfriend?
A failing magazine writer and a nightclub hostess take a break from the world on a derelict plantation in rural Tennessee. As the ghosts of the past thicken the atmosphere, each must face the horrible price of peace.
