Its Murder My Son A Mac Faraday Mystery

No cover — Lauren Carr: Its Murder My Son A Mac Faraday Mystery (2010, Createspace)

Published Nov. 4, 2010 by Createspace.

ISBN:: 978-1-4528-1943-3

(1 review)

What started out as the worst day of Mac Faraday’s life would end up being a new beginning. After a messy divorce hearing, the last person that Mac wanted to see was another lawyer. Yet, this lawyer wore the expression of a child bursting to tell his secret. This confidence would reveal Mac as heir to undreamed of fortunes, and lead him to the birthplace of America’s Queen of Mystery and an investigation that will unfold like one of her famous mystery novels.

Soon after she moves to Deep Creek Lake, Maryland, Katrina Singleton learns that life in an exclusive community is not all good. For some unknown reason, a strange man calling himself “Pay Back” begins stalking her. When Katrina is found strangled all evidence points to her terrorist, who is nowhere to be found.

Three months later, the file on her murder is still open when Mac Faraday, …

What started out as the worst day of Mac Faraday’s life would end up being a new beginning. After a messy divorce hearing, the last person that Mac wanted to see was another lawyer. Yet, this lawyer wore the expression of a child bursting to tell his secret. This confidence would reveal Mac as heir to undreamed of fortunes, and lead him to the birthplace of America’s Queen of Mystery and an investigation that will unfold like one of her famous mystery novels.

Soon after she moves to Deep Creek Lake, Maryland, Katrina Singleton learns that life in an exclusive community is not all good. For some unknown reason, a strange man calling himself “Pay Back” begins stalking her. When Katrina is found strangled all evidence points to her terrorist, who is nowhere to be found.

Three months later, the file on her murder is still open when Mac Faraday, sole heir to his unknown birth mother’s home and fortune, moves into the estate next door. Little does he know as he drives up to Spencer Manor that he is driving into a closed gate community that is hiding more suspicious deaths than his DC workload as a homicide detective. With the help of his late mother’s journal, this retired cop puts all his detective skills to work to pick up where the local investigators have left off to follow the clues to Katrina’s killer.

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Stephanie Jane reviewed Its Murder My Son A Mac Faraday Mystery by Lauren Carr

I was kept happily enthralled

4 stars

I've already read the second book in Lauren Carr's 'Mac Faraday' mystery series, Old Loves Die Hard, so I appreciated this opportunity to right go back to the series' beginning and discover how Mac found himself living in luxury at Deep Creek Lake. He's just inherited an almost unimaginable fortune, but before he can start to accustom himself to his changed circumstances, Mac embroils himself in a complicated murder investigation.

I was impressed by just how many threads Carr manages to entwine in order to keep her readers guessing the murderer's identity. At one point I think I had practically everyone in town on my suspects list and, as the body count rises, it seemed the solution might boil down to the last person standing! The case centres around Mac's investigation, but for me it was the varied characters surrounding him that made It's Murder My Son such an interesting …

I've already read the second book in Lauren Carr's 'Mac Faraday' mystery series, Old Loves Die Hard, so I appreciated this opportunity to right go back to the series' beginning and discover how Mac found himself living in luxury at Deep Creek Lake. He's just inherited an almost unimaginable fortune, but before he can start to accustom himself to his changed circumstances, Mac embroils himself in a complicated murder investigation.

I was impressed by just how many threads Carr manages to entwine in order to keep her readers guessing the murderer's identity. At one point I think I had practically everyone in town on my suspects list and, as the body count rises, it seemed the solution might boil down to the last person standing! The case centres around Mac's investigation, but for me it was the varied characters surrounding him that made It's Murder My Son such an interesting story. The ghastly Hardwicks make for great reading although I'm glad not to actually know them in real life. I could empathise strongly with Betsy's notebook obsession (although I was disappointed at the continual fat shaming of this character), and sympathised with David's struggle against repeatedly being shunned by his superior officers. Of course it's German Shepherd dog Gnarly who steals every scene - along with pretty much everything else that isn't tied down, especially food! I love Gnarly!

Deep Creek Lake makes a gorgeous setting for It's Murder My Son and I enjoyed peeping into the glamorous lifestyles of the super-rich characters. I didn't manage to work out the whole mystery before the big reveal, but was kept happily enthralled and am now looking forward to rejoing Mac and Gnarly to solve another mystery very soon.