Will I love Wordhunter?

I’m a sucker for a good mystery or police procedural, and in fact I always have one by my bedside, along with a memoir and non-fiction.Stella Sands published six true-life crime thrillers before turning to a fictional who-done-it with an unusual investigator, and the result is wonderfully original. Her heroine is neither a detective by profession nor a police officer; she’s a college student who’s preternaturally gifted in linguistics, especially drawn to forensic linguistics, the use of language as evidence in criminal cases. Maggie, our heroine, is rough-and-ready, with tattoos, beer, cigarettes and motorcycle, yet a genius at finding clues… show more.