TWIST OF THE KNIFE
Fiction Skirting the law, searching for truth TWIST OF THE KNIFE By Becky Masterman 320 pp. Minotaur Reviewed by Sarah Corbett Morgan Protagonist Brigid Quinn is a retired FBI officer, having left the force early for reasons hinted at but not detailed in this third Brigid Quinn mystery. These details are in the author’s previous Quinn books, which I have not read, but might after reading this one. Quinn has flown to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where her elderly father is in the hospital with pneumonia and not doing well. During her stay, she reconnects with an old co-worker, Laura Coleman, now a temporary investigator for the Innocence Project. She has dredged up new details on the closed case, the murder of a woman and subsequent disappearance of her three children. The husband, Marcus Creighton, was convicted and has been sitting on death row for the past 15 years. The case is old, and many have told her to leave it alone, but Coleman believes he is innocent, framed for the ...