Strong Woman Character Writing – My Book Review

Secrets that defy time!

An inconceivable disaster brings Tori Winters’ plans for the historic house she inherited to a traumatic standstill. A section of the escape tunnel built by her great-grandfather, a notorious Dallas gangster, has collapsed. Within the rubble, there is a gruesome discovery. A skeleton with a bullet hole in the skull.

The shocking cave-in triggers an ominous scheme to condemn her property as accusations arise that the tunnel is dangerous.

Embattled, Tori soon discovers that more than the destruction of the house is on the line. It seems she can’t escape the past. It keeps clawing its way into her life with deadly consequences.

Who hides in the shadows with a motive for murder? And … is Tori the target?

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I was super enthused to read Anita Dickenson’s next book in her Tori Winters series, Murder’s Legacy. Since discovering Anita, I have grown to have a profound likeability of her writing and stories.

Murder’s Legacy drew me immediately into danger that evolves into a dynamite encounter. Then there is the unearthing of a buried body. Thrown into the mix are obstacles from a city, guys getting hurt to a little old woman getting injured. All wrapped around a mystery of who and why someone is wanting to destroy Tori and her dream of opening a B&B.

This was my first introduction to the Tori Winters character. What I came to love the most is how Anita developed Tori in standing up for herself, thinking on her feet with common sense along with some incredible dialogue coming from Tori.

As with all small towns or even in this world, you find out that it is a small world and that connections run deep into your own family history. And I love Tori’s research style of using online newspapers to discover the ID of the body.

I did not read the first book in this series. That said yes, you need to read the first book to fill in the backstory that is talked about in this book. If you love mysteries set around strong women, that have amazing dialogue then the Tori Winters mysteries are going to be right up your alley.

A couple of side notes… This book cover is righteous. What is in those sandwiches? I just keep wanting a sandwich now. Anita needs to include recipes next time.

A remark on the back matter of this story. OMG! It is really a small world. When I read how this story came about I yelled out, “No, way!!!” This story concept was modeled on a real-life Texas guy, Benny Binion. Without knowing some Texas history, you think car and mailbox bombs only occurred in foreign lands or that New York and Chicago were the only places early-day gangster activity took place. That’s not the case. The Dallas and Fort Worth area experienced this in the 1920s to 1950s. I know this because Benny and his associates came up in my own research for my own book. Murder’s Legacy is now more endearing to me because of this connection.

Award-winning Author Anita Dickason is a twenty-two-year veteran of the Dallas Police Department. She served as a patrol officer, undercover narcotics detective, advanced accident investigator, tactical officer, and first female sniper on the Dallas SWAT team.

Anita writes about what she knows, cops and crime. Her police background provides an unending source of inspiration for her plots and characters. Many incidents and characters portrayed in her books are based on personal experience. For her, the characters are the fun part of writing as she never knows where they will take her. There is always something out of the ordinary in her stories.

In Anita’s debut novel, Sentinels of the Night, she created an elite FBI Unit, the Trackers. Since then, she has added three more Tracker crime thrillers, Going Gone!, A u 7 9, and Operation Navajo, which are not a series and can be read in any order, and Deadly Business, a crime thriller.

As a Texas author, many of Anita’s books are based in Texas, or there is a link to Texas. When she stepped outside of the Tracker novels and wrote Not Dead and the Tori Winters Mysteries series, she set them in the small Texas communities of Meridian and Granbury, respectively.