(Book for review courtesy of NetGalley)
Lake Union Publishing ~ August 27
Abigail Rose Marie's The Moonflowers is an atmospheric mystery, with an eerie setting full of disquieted characters. These types of mysteries ask What is this place? How did I get here? Who can I trust? There's always a river, trees, a weird old house, a weary woman who knows too much, and The Moonflowers offers all that and more. Antigone - Tig - Costello grew up with an academic artist father. She is an artist as well. His father receives a letter asking him to come to Darren Kentucky, birthplace of the father he never knew. He sends Tig instead. Tig knows little about her family roots, and when she asks about her grandfather, she is told to see Eloise Price, a patient in the town's Mental Asylum. Eloise knows Benjamin Costello best because she's the woman who killed him.
The Moonflowers goes at a slow place and draws readers in, just as Eloise draws Tig in with her stories. The novel deals with women's issues - health concerns that still elicit blushes and anger today. Tig herself is dealing with trauma and finds kindred spirits in the ghosts of her grandfather's past. Tig begins to heal after learning the truth behind the murder of this town's "greatest citizen." The Moonflowers is a quiet revelation that the things that need to change often don't, yet we need to keep fighting the fight.
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