If I Had a Hammer
May 26th, 2023. Filed under: This & That.
A new job, a brutal murder, and Camelot has ended.In 1963, Dot Morgan’s life was changed forever. She witnessed the assassination of John F Kennedy through the lens of her boxy Kodak Instamatic camera, bringing traumatic aftereffects of the brutality that happened as they stood on the parade route in Dallas.She starts her first real secretarial job with a boss who has no sympathy for her trauma. When Dot’s only work friend has a mysterious accident at a demolition site, she digs around on her own only to find very little love between two brothers and no one hammering out justice to find a murderer. The suspects are all around Dot and as she tries to sift through their motives, her cousin Ellie is going through PTSD on her own, losing interest in work, and her fiance? all the while quoting some of JFK’s finest speeches.With so much change in her world, can Dot still tell the difference between good and evil?
ISLAND BREEZES
What would I do if I had a hammer? I could build something new or maybe repair something not so new.
Or I could destroy something or someone. There’s a person in Camden, Texas who is doing just that. People haven’t even recovered from the assassination of President Kennedy when the local murders start to pile up.
I’m from the Sixties and am enjoying some of the memories that are in this series. Since I’m unable to get to the library I can’t read the first book in Trent’s Swinging Sixties, Twist and Shout, since it’s not also in an ebook format. I’m certain I would like it, too.
I just found a Kindle edition of Twist and Shout. ;p
Thank you, Ms Trent, for bringing back memories as well as entertaining me with Dot’s adventures.
***Book received from PICT without charge.***
You can find Teresa online at https://teresatrent.com and https://teresatrent.blog. Teresa Trent writes the Swinging Sixties Mystery Series as well as the Piney Woods and the Pecan Bayou Mystery Series. Teresa writes mysteries, romance and short stories and in lives in South Texas.
May 26th, 2023 at 11:23
This does sound like a really fun, cute series!
May 26th, 2023 at 11:32
I love this review! Thank you so much and I’m glad you found an ecopy of The Twist and Shout Murder.
May 27th, 2023 at 08:20
Thank you. I’m glad you’re working your way through the Sixties.