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Feminist Mystery Reviews BLOOD WILL TELL Reviewed by Harriet Klausner Last year Therese Galloway allowed her mother to involve her in a dangerous murder investigation that almost cost the younger person her life. Therese promises her beloved spouse that she will never become involved with her mother's craziness ever again. Therese tries her hardest to keep her vow. She minds her own business even when a young person arrives at her mother's door. The stranger, Raymond, claims to be Therese's half-brother, a by-product of an affair between her father and his mother while her dad was still married to Therese's mother. Raymond moves into the home of Therese's mother. Good intentions do not always take into account life's unexpected curve balls. Therese is thrown a particularly wicked breaking ball when Raymond suddenly disappears, and Therese and her mother receive strange phone calls. Things turn nasty when an intruder tries to break into the house of Therese's mother, who shoots him. With her mother in apparent danger, Therese has no choice except to investigate Raymond and retrieve the pictures of her father that he stole. Once again the "avoid all risks" Ms. Galloway is plunging herself into another dangerous investigation that could prove dangerous to herself and her family members. BLOOD WILL TELL captures the flavor and the experience of a middle class black California suburban family that is struggling with problems (including racial) at home and at work. Terris McMahon Grimes is an excellent story teller who cleverly uses sub-plots and secondary characters as a subtle way of making the female protagonist seem three dimensional and real. This novel is an amateur detective mystery, par excellence.
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