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Cop’s Daughter: Victoria
#1 in the Cop’s Daughter Series

by Laura Marie Henion



      Cop’s Daughter: Victoria, is the first in a series about women who are, like the author, the daughters of policemen. In this first dramatic entry, Victoria Mardullo is facing not only a memorial for her father, Danny, marking a year after his death in the line of duty, but also the loss of her fiancé in the dunes of the Iraq War. She knows that the local police force has not given up the search for Danny’s murderer, but she also is realistic when it comes to over-burdened detectives chasing down a crime that is a year old. She sets out on her own, using resources made available to her as the daughter of a town’s beloved family and the skills she has honed as an investigative reporter.

I enjoyed this book for several reasons. The big ones are that the mystery is very well crafted and the interpersonal relationships within the Mardullo family. I suspected the bad guy about mid-way in, but didn’t really believe he did it until he revealed himself at the end. It kept me guessing, and wasn’t a last-page, butler-in-the-closet solution either. In almost every big family there is an incarnation of the characters of Aunt Jane, Uncle Patrick, Brother Peter and Momma Sherry. Victoria’s responses to each are founded on respect and courtesy, but personalized by her individualism and grief.

Keeping secrets in an extended family is not the easiest thing to do, and neither is dating somebody who is not readily accepted by them. Victoria alienates everybody she loves doing both helping the federal authorities solve her father’s murder and restore the Mardullo family well-being.

The Book

Whiskey Creek Press
December 2006
eBook
ISBN13: 978-1-59374-693-8
Romance/Mystery
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The Reviewer

Beth Ellen McKenzie
Reviewed 2006
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