title: Twisted Reason (A Lucinda Pierce Mystery)
author:  Diane Fanning 
description: Edgar-finalist Fanning skillfully illuminates the heartbreaking challenges facing Alzheimer's victims and their families in her fourth mystery featuring Virginia homicide detective Lucinda Pierce (after 2010's Mistaken Identity). When Vicki Humphries discovers the body of her father-in-law, Dr. Edgar Humphries, an Alzheimer's patient who's been missing from his son's house for five months, on the front porch, Edgar's pockets are curiously full of acorns. Edgar proves to have died from a heart attack, but soon two more missing dementia sufferers turn up dead, possibly murdered: Adele Kendleshon, by drowning, and Francis Delong, by head trauma. Other Alzheimer's patients have also disappeared in the area. Lucinda's investigation leads to a strange place that resembles "a poor man's Disneyland." Series fans will be pleased to find that Lucinda is recovering well from injuries sustained in an earlier case, and that her relationship with FBI Special Agent in Charge Jake Lovett is flourishing. (Jan.) <BR>(c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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  # Twisted is the Crown
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Kel Carpenter
  
  
  ## Lucinda Dark
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Twisted is the Crown
  
  
  Kel Carpenter & Lucinda Dark
  
  
  Published by Kel Carpenter & Lucinda Dark
  
  
  Copyright © 2019, Kel Carpenter LLC
  
  
  Edited by [Analisa Denny](https://www.aldediting.com)
  
  
  Proofread by Dominique Laura
  
  
  Cover Art by Story Wrappers
  
  
  Map and Graphic designed by Zenta Brice
  
  
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  This is a work of fiction. Names, places, characters and incidents are either
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