From USA Today Bestselling Author, P.D. Workman!A dead child.A mother deep in mourning.Private Investigator Zachary Goldman’s life isn’t all roses, but he tries to put his own shattered life behind him to investigate the death of five-year-old Declan Bond.Declan’s death has been ruled an accident, but his grandmother thinks there is more to it. She fears Declan’s mother will not be able to find … Declan’s mother will not be able to find peace until Zachary can give them an answer once and for all. But as Zachary digs into the circumstances surrounding Declan’s death, he finds that all is not as it seems, and somebody doesn’t want him to find the truth.
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Psychologically complex and gripping … Zachary must deal with his own psychological issues as well as those of the child’s parents along with attempts on his life. I’m binge reading this series.
Zachary Goldman, Private Investigator, is flawed with a capital F. Shattered by the tragedies of his own life, he will somehow still manage to pick himself up and dig just a little bit deeper than anyone else to find the vital clues.
Maybe being broken makes it easier for others who have faced tragedy to trust him. Walk with Zachary as he solves cases that will stretch his abilities to the limit.
Even with his own life in shambles, Zachary Goldman is still the one you want on the case.
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She Wore Mourning (Zachary Goldman Mysteries, #1), my twentieth read from author P.D. Workman. Well-written & enjoyable. the author has delved into the detective mystery genre with a home run! Now I need to get His Hands were Quiet so I can get caught up on the series. “I received a free review copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving a review.” (RIP Marley January 20, 2014 – July 24, 2018).
P.D. Workman has created a deeply flawed but very compelling character in Zachary Goldman. His background is tragic and his ability to interact with the world and appear “normal” is one of his greatest daily challenges, and both informs and hinders his work as a private investigator. The central mystery is heartbreaking—a “cold case” that’s the drowning death of a five-year-old—and there are plenty of twists and turns on the way to solving it. The dead child’s parents are fascinating to read about, needing to keep it together through their non-neuronormative conditions. Workman writes these characters very well: their conditions don’t define them, and the reader easily sees the real people where society might only see the conditions.
The secondary characters in the romantic/personal subplots are not quite as compelling as the main character (or the child’s parents). Goldman’s main love interest is a too-good-to-be-true dreamgirl with the patience of Job, and Goldman’s ex-wife often veers into insane territory, although comes back from the precipice a couple of times. Goldman, too, exhibits some troubling behavior that Perfect Love Interest Girl forgives way too easily. Although these relatively minor nits keep the book from entering five-star territory for me, they didn’t detract from the “unputdownability” of this book. I’ll definitely buy the next book and follow the series. Recommended to anyone who likes a good detective novel!