I MEAN YOU NO HARM by Beth Castrodale - Review & Giveaway

 

"The enemy of my enemy is my sister."

Layla Shawn always thought her estranged criminal father, Vic "Thundercloud" Doloro would be killed in a hail of bullets. In Beth Castrodale's novel, I MEAN YOU NO HARM (ImbrifexBooks),Vic serves ten years in an Ohio prison for a three state burglary ring he ran and when he gets out, he dies of heart disease. 

Layla's mom died when Layla was young and her grandparents raised her. The cause of her mother's death was listed suicide but that's always been questionable. She has a picture her mother drew of a man years ago, and remembers being told stories about a man called "The Wolf" with dark vacant turned downed eyes and a widows peak. 

Layla shows up for her father's funeral where she's greeted by her half sister, Bette with a hand shake, her father's sister's ex-wife, Marla and her son, Jake who has Downs Syndrome. Layla takes this opportunity to study all the men at the funeral and see if and resemble "The Wolf."

After the funeral, Bette gives Layla fifty-thousand dollars her father left her, and a note of apology, but she doesn't accept the money because she thinks it's dirty. Bette says she's taken hers and Layla should sleep on it.

Bette says she must drive the next day to Phoenix and pick up something else her father left her. She's not quite sure what it is or who has it. Layla says she'll go with her. Bette and Layla begin to mend fences, but Layla finds herself caught in the middle of a potentially deadly score between her dead father and a man who knows more than he should about her mother's death. Is he "The Wolf?"

I MEAN YOU NO HARM will have you flipping pages as the plots get deeper and more complex. It's full of tension and bursting with twists and turns that'll surprise you. A good thriller for summer reading.

Beth Castrodale worked as a newspaper reporter until her love of books led her to the publishing field. She was a senior editor at Bedford/St. Martin’s and is the founding editor of Small Press Picks. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in such publications as Live Write Thrive, Printer’s Devil Review, the Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine, and Writing and Wellness. Her debut novel, Marion Hatley, was a finalist for a Nilsen Prize for a First Novel from Southeast Missouri State University Press, and an excerpt from her second novel, In This Ground, was a shortlist finalist for a William Faulkner – William Wisdom Creative Writing Award.

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