Echoes Among the Stones by Jaime Jo Wright ~ Book Review

 In 1946, Imogene Grayson comes across her sister's murdered body in her bedroom of their family's farmhouse.  In her heartbreaking grief, Imogene swears to her sister she will not stop until she finds the murderer.   Imogene becomes obsessed with trying to find clues to piece together her sister's last moments, much to the dismay and frustration of her police chief brother.  But all her searching does is churn up more mysteries.  But letting go is so hard.  And she promised her sister she'd never give up.

In present day, Aggie finds herself lost after the passing away of her beloved Mom and the loss of her job.  So when her Grandmother (Mumsie), whom she has not had contact with for eight years, contacts her out of blue asking her for help as she recovers from a broken hip, Aggie heads back to the town of Mill Creek, Wisconsin, the place & person she had determined to avoid.  Her eccentric grandmother had always had quirks and a sharp tongue but Aggie was not prepared for how much worse it had gotten.  When she arrives and finds the broken hip was not the real reason Mumsie wanted her in Mill Creek, Aggie is not impressed, but having just taken a job as Cemetery Secretary to help restore a historical flooded out section of the town cemetery, Aggie decides she will stay.  But the cemetery and her grandmother are both holding onto secrets that slowly are coming to the surface revealing a decades old murder.

Another great dual timeline book by this author.  Both timeline stories were great on their own but this author really knows how to weave the two together so well.  She builds both storylines until they come together usually with me not guessing the mystery until it's revealed.  I loved the historical timeline take on a war munitions factory and how it affected the town.  I've never read that in a story before.  The reveal was a bit sudden but didn't take away at all from the way the story built.  I highly recommend this author if you like dual timeline mysteries sprinkled with a touch of a love story that is not in your face with a faith element that is never preachy but woven into the story naturally.  

I gave it a 9.5/10

Reading Challenge Goals Met:  January's prompt for Read Your Bookshelf Challenge:  A "quiet" word in the title (Echoes)