Sticks and Stones - a book review

 

The story opens when Rachel Flynn, an assistant prosecuting attorney, receives a letter telling her that a body is going to be recovered at a construction site in her city.  The anonymous writer states that the death was an accident and has chosen to write to Rachel because they know she will understand because of an article that was written in the newspaper that included Rachel being key in solving another murder that involved Rachel's brother.  

As the story progresses we learn that the "accident" happened 25 years prior to this and that the person who died was the neighborhood bully.  Rachel receives not one, but three letters.  When she received the first one, she went directly to Sgt. Will Pendleton, a dectective on the police force.  They work closely to find and interview the people who were kids in this particular neighborhood 25 years ago.  Those interviews are how the story is developed.

After Rachel's daughter McKenna was born, Rachel began having strong feelings about whether something was right or wrong.  She began calling them "hunches", and later on she began to call this a gift that God had given her to discern things that others were missing.  

I found the book to be quite good. I read the majority of the 248 pages in one day because the plot was moving so swiftly. I learned more about people who are bullies and why they do the things they do.  I learned more about how violated and desperate it makes the victims who are being bullied feel, as well.