E-Reading Cold Case Story
Title of the book: Cold Case StoryAuthor: Stephanie Kane
Publisher: Cold Hard Press
Publishing Date: 2021
ISBN/ASIN : B08TQTBB84:
Summary:
Cold Case Story is based on the brutal murder of a housewife in the Denver suburbs in 1973. A college student back then, Stephanie Kane was more than a witness to this terrible crime. For nearly thirty years, she remained silent. Then, in 2001, she tried to exorcise the crime by fictionalizing it in a mystery novel called Quiet Time. But instead of laying the murder to rest, Quiet Time brought it roaring back to life.
Cold Case Story is about a family that fractured along the fault lines of a murder. It's about fiction colliding with a cold hard crime, and the very personal story of how it feels to ping-pong between participant and observer, novelist and witness to one's own uneasy set of facts. In the end, all are punished--even the guilty.
(From amazon)
Stephanie Kane is a lawyer and award-winning author of four crime novels. Born in Brooklyn, she came to Colorado as a freshman at CU. She owned and ran a karate studio in Boulder and is a second-degree black belt. After graduating from law school, she was a corporate partner at a top Denver law firm before becoming a criminal defense attorney. She has lectured on money laundering and white collar crime in Eastern Europe, and given workshops throughout the country on writing technique. She livers in Denver with her husband and two black cats.
Extreme Indifference and Seeds of Doubt won a Colorado Book Award for Mystery and two Colorado Authors League Awards for Genre Fiction. She belongs to Mystery Writers of America, Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers and the Colorado Authors League.
For more information on Stephanie and her books, please visit writerkane.com
I am no stranger to reading and watching crime stories, my former favorite shows which include web of lies and Deadly women as well as cold case files. ( No this case didnt come up...) one thing that I was struck by when I was reading this book is how different behind the scenes are versus the straightforward narrative. From reading the narrative as well, I also have to say that perhaps it's through this book Stephanie Kane is trying to excise her feelings towards her former mother in law. At the start, Stephanie and Doug are getting married, despite his family's disapproval of her faith and choices. But then the mother in law dies and thus begins an examination and cross examination of evidence and people that surrounded the mother in law. The chapters are short but are packed with a lot of information and trying to make sense of impossible, almost like bullets. It's not only the past that is talked about, but the aftermath is also touched briefly. What I gathered from the story is the difficulty of linear narrative and of finding the killer and bringing him to justice.
This was given for a review
4 out of 5
(0: Stay away unless a masochist 1: Good for insomnia 2: Horrible but readable; 3: Readable and quickly forgettable, 4: Good, enjoyable 5: Buy it, keep it and never let it go.)
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