Tell No Tales: A Marti Macalister Mystery

by Eleanor Taylor Bland

Book Overview

The blissful aftermath of Marti MacAlister's second wedding doesn't last long when her longtime partner Matthew "Vik" Jessennovik interrupts the honeymoon with some disturbing news. Two murders-one recent and another decades old-shock a wealthy Chicago suburb. Now Marti and Vik must get to the heart of two complex cases. And what they uncover will put their unlikely partnership at risk-not to mention their lives...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312971133
• ISBN13: 9780312971137
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Tell No Tales Tells Great Tales

Another excellent mystery from Eleanor Taylor Bland!

Loved It!

This, by far, was my favorite in this entire series. The plot was thick, the characters were deep and the ending was perfect. What more can a reader ask for?Another one just like this one! Pleeeasssse!

From Publisher's Weekly:

"Bland again engages the reader on many levels as Marti and Vic reevaluate their partnership while solving the case that could divide them forever"

A real winner

I've read all of the Marti MacAlister mysteries and this is by far Bland's best one! Marti and Vik's characters show much more depth than they have in previous installments of the series. Can't wait for the next one.

Definitely not a bland police procedural

Chicago police detectives Marti MacAlister and her partner Matthew "Vik" Jessenovik struggle to keep their law enforcement work from interceding with their personal lives at a time both deal with radical change. The newly married Marti works on establishing a cohesive family relationship with her new husband Ben and their children. Simultaneously, Vik deals with the muscular deterioration caused by a horrific attack of multiple sclerosis on his suffering spouse Mildred. However, two corpses appear, forcing Marti and Vik to dive head first into their professional lives. The body of an unidentified mummified woman was found in an abandoned theater owned by the wealthy Cheney family. The second deceased person turns out to be Barnabas Cheney, a mentally disturbed individual. Someone murdered both victims with the only link being Barnabas. As Marti and Vik investigate, clues seem to take them no where until they find a link to Vik's police mentor and hero, former detective Curly Smith, an item threatens to split the team apart. The seventh novel in the MacAlister-Jessenovik police procedural continues the tradition of multilevel story lines blending into a wonderful novel. The main plot evolves around the murder investigation. However, the secondary plots bring much personal depth including the schism between the former tightly unified detective team. It is the secondary tales that make TELL NO TALES and the fabulousprevious books into one of the best representatives of the sub-genre. No one comes away from an Eleanor Taylor Bland reading experience feeling that they tasted a bland novel because of the varying complexities that ultimately flow into an entertaining book.Harriet Klausner