The Murder of Madison Garcia (Large Print Edition)

by Marcy McCreary

Overview

Sometimes the truth doesn’t set you free—it gets you killed.

Detective Susan Ford notices a missed call on her phone from a number she doesn’t recognize, and when Madison Garcia, a woman with past ties to the town of Monticello, New York, is found stabbed to death the next morning, Susan realizes that Madison was the one who had called her. But why?

Susan teams up with her father, retired Detective Will Ford, to find the killer, and their investigation soon threatens to uncover Madison's family secrets—an inheritance, accidental death, money laundering, extramarital affairs, and family rivalries, just to name a few—and they don’t appreciate the Fords digging into their business.

As the investigation twists and turns, the Fords discover that Madison was planning to confess to a long-kept secret, but someone brutally silenced her. Everyone she knew is a suspect. Anyone could be her killer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780744308419
Publisher:	CamCat Publishing
Publication date:	03/28/2023
Series:	A Ford Family Mystery , #2
Edition description:	Large Print
Pages:	482
Sales rank:	789,524
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Marcy McCreary is the author of The Murder of Madison Garcia and The Disappearance of Trudy Solomon, which was a finalist for a Silver Falchion Award for Best Investigator Mystery. Her essays about crime fiction have appeared in Mystery & Suspense, Criminal Element, Women Writers/Women's Books, and Mystery Readers Journal. She graduated from The George Washington University with a B.A. in American literature and political science and pursued a career in marketing and communications. She lives in Hull, MA with her husband, Lew.
 

Editorial Reviews

01/09/2023

The discovery of Madison Garcia’s stabbed body in a parked car drives McCreary’s uneven sequel to 2021’s The Disappearance of Trudy Solomon. Despite a miserable cold, Det. Susan Ford of the Monticello, N.Y., PD responds to the call to the crime scene. Susan knows Madison’s parents died under troubling circumstances when she was a teenager, their bodies found by her then-boyfriend, local bad-boy Rafael Garcia. Given this history, Susan requests that her father, retired detective Will Ford, consult on the case. Suspects are plentiful, some with grudges going back years. Jacob Bowman, Madison’s business partner, would benefit financially from her death. Jacob is also under investigation for money laundering; Madison was getting in his way. Sarah Steinberg knifed a girl in high school, and she blamed Madison for stealing Rafael from her. Did Sarah finally get back at Madison? Camilla, Rafael’s twin, has several reasons to want Madison dead. The strong father and daughter pairing makes up only in part for a convoluted plot that stalls under the weight of too many characters with too many good reasons to do the dreadful Madison in. Hopefully, McCreary will return to form next time. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly