Title: The Dead Key
Author: D M Pulley
Review: A brilliant story about a
bank that has been closed for twenty years. Although closed it still has a
security guard employed. The bank closed overnight and is finally being
considered for selling. The vault containing the safety deposit boxes is there
with the boxes unopened and there the real story begins. It is actually two
stories being told, one taking place currently and the other just prior to the
banks closing. What is contained within the safety deposit boxes? Why are all
of the bank keys to open the boxes missing? What is a dead key and how is it
used? A story involving intrigue, death, assault, and hidden treasure all of
the elements of a good mystery.
I rated this book 5 star. But I would also rate it as a page
turner. A page turner is a book that you do not want to put down even though
you know you should be doing something else like turn the light off and go to
sleep.
I received this book from Net Galley as an ARC.
Thanks Frank for this
review.
Synopsis:
2014 Winner — Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award
— Grand Prize and Mystery & Thriller Fiction Winner
It’s 1998, and for years the old First Bank of
Cleveland has sat abandoned, perfectly preserved, its secrets only speculated
on by the outside world.
Twenty years before, amid strange staff
disappearances and allegations of fraud, panicked investors sold Cleveland’s
largest bank in the middle of the night, locking out customers and employees,
and thwarting a looming federal investigation. In the confusion that followed,
the keys to the vault’s safe-deposit boxes were lost.
In the years since, Cleveland’s wealthy
businessmen kept the truth buried in the abandoned high-rise. The ransacked
offices and forgotten safe-deposit boxes remain locked in time, until young
engineer Iris Latch stumbles upon them during a renovation survey. What begins
as a welcome break from her cubicle becomes an obsession as Iris unravels the
bank’s sordid past. With each haunting revelation, Iris follows the looming
shadow of the past deeper into the vault—and soon realizes that the key to the
mystery comes at an astonishing price.
Kindle Edition, 477
pages
Published March 1st
2015 by Thomas & Mercer
Author
Information:
D. M. Pulley's first novel, The Dead Key, was inspired by
her work as a structural engineer in Cleveland, Ohio. During a survey of
an abandoned building, she discovered a basement vault full of unclaimed safe deposit boxes. The
mystery behind the vault haunted her for years, until she put down her
calculator and started writing. The Dead Key was the 2014 Amazon Breakthrough
Novel Award grand prize winner. Pulley continues to work as a private
consultant and forensic engineer, investigating building failures and designing
renovations. She lives in northeast Ohio with her husband and two children, and
she is currently at work on her second novel.
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