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Hidden Heritage
Hidden Heritage
Hidden Heritage
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Hidden Heritage

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After a gruesome killing at the Carlton County, Kansas, livestock feedyard, Sheriff Sam Abbot, Undersheriff Lottie Albright, and her ranching husband deputy know their resources are over-stretched. Still, none of their team or neighboring law enforcement in Western Kansas welcomes the idea of a regional crime center.

Kansas Bureau of Investigation Agent Dimon suggests the murder may not be a simple local affair. Unconvinced, Lottie— still director of the historical society—calls for stories from families whose ancestors were part of groups colonizing Kansas. Doña Francisca Díaz is the ancient head of one such clan.

It turns out, Francisca's great grandson Victor was the murder victim. Francisca, a fabled curandera with terribly damaged hands, insists she knows why Victor was killed. The key, she claims, is in ancient documents.

At Doña Francisca's invitation, Lottie visits the Díaz' property. In a drought-ridden area, the land is lush. Francisca wants Lottie to train as her heir. Reluctant yet fascinated, Lottie agrees.

Will Lottie be lost in this maze of magic? Does this family and its secret hold the key to murder and other terrible crimes?

LanguageEnglish
Release dateNov 1, 2013
ISBN9781615954155
Hidden Heritage
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Charlotte Hinger

Charlotte Hinger is an award-winning novelist and Kansas historian. The first book in her Lottie Albright series, Deadly Descent, won the AZ Book Publishers’ Award, Best Mystery/Suspense. Hidden Heritage won Kirkus Reviews 100 Best Mysteries & 100 Best Fiction Books of 2013. Fractured Families was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. Charlotte lives in Colorado.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    This is another series that keeps getting better and better. Lottie is the local historian in a small western community in Kansas. She has also accepted the duties of the undersheriff as a part time job. When a foreman at the local feedlot is killed, Lottie is drawn into a decades old feud around land rights as well as ancient beliefs in mysticism and herbalism.There is some great history here as well as a very good mystery. I will be looking forward the next book in this series.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Once again, Kansas history is what brings this book to life. Lottie learns that the murder victim is the great-grandson of Dona Francisca Diaz, the elderly head of one of the first groups to colonize the state. Dona Francisca insists that she knows why Victor was killed, and that the key to the murder can be found in ancient documents. A famed curandera with horribly crippled hands, Dona Francisca invites Lottie to their lush property and insists that she wants to train Lottie as the heir to her legendary cures. Although Lottie is extremely reluctant to do so, she sees this as a once-in-a-lifetime chance for incredible knowledge... and for the chance to solve a murder. Solving crimes through old documents, ephemera, and stories has always fascinated me, and that's why Charlotte Hinger's Lottie Albright books have become one of my favorite series. Sure enough, the history and legends surrounding the Diaz family and their property grabbed hold of my interest and didn't turn it loose, but two other components were a bit lacking in this third book. The mystery was very slow-paced, almost plodding in places, and Lottie's family dynamics which have set off so many sparks in the first two books are a bit lackluster here. Despite that, I still found the book to be very enjoyable. I have a button here at my desk that proclaims HISTORY MATTERS-- and it does. Seeds that were sown long ago can germinate and take hold down through generations. Families can have prejudices and yet have no clue that those prejudices had their beginnings eight generations in the past. Hinger understands this and shows us how to tease the answers out into the light of day. It's a process of which I never tire. I look forward to the next book in this series and hope that Lottie regains the spark she was lacking in this book.

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