Hart of Madness by Lynne Kennedy
3 1/2 stars because I wanted a happy ending and took a 1/2 star off. But was good otherwise.
Hart Island, just off New York, has been used as a graveyard for paupers and unidentified bodies for a long time. It has also housed a prison and a lunatic asylum. There is a movement to identify the bodies on Hart Island which is what got me interested in the first place.
While this is fiction it is a blunt and realistic portrayal of what greed can do to a family and what conditions were like at the turn of that century.
The story switches back and forth between 1902 and 2016. A murder in 2016 sets off the investigation and leads to mysteriously happenings in the victim's family's past. Ruby Hunt's story is sad, a tear-jerker as my grandma would say, and is revealed through the flashbacks.
This is not a story for those who want a happy ever after ending or even a happy story at all.
There is closure but like the old saying--Karma's a B**ch.
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