Welcome to Mysteries to Die For and this Toe Tag.
I am TG Wolff and am here with Jack, my piano player and producer. This is normally a podcast where we combine storytelling with original music to put you at the heart of mystery, murder, and mayhem. Today is a bonus episode we call a Toe Tag. It is the first chapter from a fresh release in the mystery, crime, and thriller genre.
Today’s featured release is Sanctuary by C.L. Tolbert. Sanctuary was released July 14, 2022 from Level Best Books and is available from Amazon and other book retailers.
About C.L. Tolbert
An attorney with thirty-five years of experience, Cynthia Tolbert retired and began writing full time. She won the Georgia State Bar Fiction Writing Contest, then developed the winning short story into the first novel of the Thornton Mystery Series, OUT FROM SILENCE, published in 2019. Two additional mysteries in the series have also been published, THE REDEMPTION, in 2021, and SANCTUARY, published in 2022. Cynthia also has a Master’s of Special Education, and taught school for ten years before becoming a lawyer. She lives in Atlanta, GA with her husband and schnauzer, Yoda.
Visit Cynthia at www.cltolbert.com
From September 12 through October 8, 2022 SANCTUARY is on tour with Partners in Crime. Check out the tour link for more content and information: https://www.partnersincrimetours.net/sanctuary-by-c-l-tolbert/
TG Wolff Review
This is an amateur sleuth mystery with elements of a legal thriller. James Crosby, as you heard, is dead. The finger of guilt is pointed at a 19-year-old transient who was a member of the church Crosby led. Arrested, the young woman, Stacey Roberts, calls the one person she knows in New Orleans who can help her, law professor Emma Thornton. The quest for Reasonable Doubt takes Emma into the back rooms of a cult, a head shop in the French Quarter, and under the overpass.
Bottom line: SANCTUARY is for you if you like sophisticated amateur sleuths, a balanced mixed of whodunnit mystery and legal thriller, and the spicy vibe that is uniquely New Orleans.
Let’s compare SANCTUARY to the “perfect amateur sleuth”
Strengths of the story. Emma Thornton is a strong protagonist with a well-ordered mind and a good heart. Emma ferrets out facts that characters would rather...
