Cop’s Daughter: Victoria
#1 in the Cop’s Daughter Series
by Laura Marie Henion
Cop’s Daughter: Victoria, is the first in a series about women who are, like the author, the daughters of
policemen. In this first dramatic entry, Victoria Mardullo is facing not only a memorial for her father, Danny,
marking a year after his death in the line of duty, but also the loss of her fiancé in the dunes of the Iraq War.
She knows that the local police force has not given up the search for Danny’s murderer, but she also is realistic
when it comes to over-burdened detectives chasing down a crime that is a year old. She sets out on her own, using
resources made available to her as the daughter of a town’s beloved family and the skills she has honed as an
investigative reporter.
I enjoyed this book for several reasons. The big ones are that the mystery is very well crafted and the
interpersonal relationships within the Mardullo family. I suspected the bad guy about mid-way in, but didn’t
really believe he did it until he revealed himself at the end. It kept me guessing, and wasn’t a last-page,
butler-in-the-closet solution either. In almost every big family there is an incarnation of the characters of
Aunt Jane, Uncle Patrick, Brother Peter and Momma Sherry. Victoria’s responses to each are founded on respect and
courtesy, but personalized by her individualism and grief.
Keeping secrets in an extended family is not the easiest thing to do, and neither is dating somebody who is not
readily accepted by them. Victoria alienates everybody she loves doing both helping the federal authorities solve
her father’s murder and restore the Mardullo family well-being. |
The Book |
Whiskey Creek Press |
December 2006 |
eBook |
ISBN13: 978-1-59374-693-8 |
Romance/Mystery |
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The Reviewer |
Beth Ellen McKenzie |
Reviewed 2006 |
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