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Death On Grave Street (Five Star First Edition Mystery) | 
| Author: Barbara Burgess
Publisher: Five Star
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 3059337
Media: Board book
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 280
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.8 x 0.9
ISBN: 1594142696
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781594142697
ASIN: 1594142696
Publication Date: February 21, 2005
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Product Description
Tyrone Trotman takes early retirement from the homicide and special investigation unit of the Detroit Police Force to accept the position of Police Chief in the small town of Port Ottawa on the shores of Lake Huron. Having lost his wife in a drive-by shooting in Detroit, he is looking for a new space to settle down and quiet his inner rage. Living in a port town on the lake seems to offer him the peaceful life he hopes for. He makes an offer on a handsome old house located on Grave Street. He questions the real estate lady about a gigantic white virgin pine that dominates the front yard. With pride the real estate lady tells Trotman a story about what the community calls the Last Tree. When the first white man discovered Michigan territory in the 17th century the white pines ruled a vast forest that covered the land. During the 19th century, in less than fifty years, the lumber industry destroyed those proud woodlands. The Last Tree on Grave Street survived the mass killing. The real estate lady solemnly reports that the Last Tree still whispers with her lost sister trees. Trotman finds the history of the tree whimsical, and purchases the house and tree. However, when an unexplained death occurs on Grave Street, the citizens blame his tree and expect him to accept their conclusion. The sheriff of the county advises Trotman to go slow and honor their local legend. Trotman knows that the death of the victim was not accidental, self-inflicted, or tree-related. He is not going to let his Last Tree take the rap for a murder. When another death occurs on Grave Street, Trotman knows that there is a real killer in the sleepy town, and that he is the only one who can find out who is behind the killings and why. Barbara Burgess has lived in Michigan all of her life. She has a BA from Wayne State University in Detroit. She has three sons and a daughter, plus eight grandchildren. She decided to write a British-type police procedural that took place in a small Michigan town. Death on Grave Street is the first.
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Death On Grave Street September 25, 2005
Interesting plot. Humorous and colorful description of characters living along small port town on Lake Huron.
entertaining paranormal police procedural romance March 5, 2005
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Unable to work homicide ever since his pregnant spouse Cindy was murdered in a drive-by killing, fortyish widower Tyrone Trotman retires from the Detroit Police Department to accept the job of police chief of Port Ottawa. He makes an offer on a historical home with the famous Last Tree located in the yard. Tyrone meets the owner, Jane Blane, the love child of the town's recently deceased leading citizen; to his shock he wants her and she reciprocates. They even discuss marriage as love at first sight strikes both of them.
Meanwhile, Deputy police officer Billy Budd informs Tyrone he found a corpse in the cemetery that was not primed for burial; not long afterward a second murdered body shows up in the same locale. While the townsfolk insist it is the spirit of the Last Tree calling out to all the trees cut down in the last century, Tyrone seeks a more mortal culprit.
This is an entertaining paranormal police procedural romance starring a wonderful protagonist who does not believe in the legends yet talks to the Last Tree and heeds otherworldly advice to save his beloved. The romantic subplot is fun as the lead duet knows they belong together and don't waste time or energy otherwise. The townsfolk and the Detroit witch augment a fun lighthearted bewitching who-done-it that will have the audience wondering if the tree spirits or a Lorax like human is speaking violently for the long gone forests by killing people.
Harriet Klausner
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