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THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE is a disturbing tale of two sisters who have shared emotional pain throughout their lives and have taken different life paths to deal with it. When one of them is brutally murdered the other is forced to put her own troubles aside in order to learn the truth behind her sister's death. The surviving sister has a lot of emotional baggage and she does not know if she can move forward in wanting to find out why her sister was killed. What if the killer got the wrong one? What if she was the one who was meant to be killed? But she needs to know, and part of it involves her past. Once everything is said and done she will either become a strong woman or she will be destroyed. The choice will be up to her. The sisters are not close. They are cordial but superficial towards each other. However the murder of one of them is a sort of a wake-up call for the other. It is unfortunate that in death is when they will become closer, at least for the surviving sister. What lies ahead will shock her very foundation of who she is. Kim Wozencraft spends a lot of time working carefully with each character in their development to show the story of Kit and Jenny trying to get their lives together, but failing to do so at this point. Kit wants to regain her own power after being raped in college and won't share her ordeal with anyone. She has spent her life as a wanderer, working job to job, and now she is working as an exotic dancer in at an Austin, Texas gentleman's club called Blaze's. One night she bests an attacker at the club's parking lot. Kit wants to be in control of her life, her own destiny, if she could only get her drinking problem under control. Jenny is a detective for the Austin police department and she is not happy with Kit's career choices. Jenny went the route of order and discipline and being more like her father Wade, a Texas Ranger. Since the death of her mother she has gotten closer to her father by following the same career path. Either sister could have been the victim and either one could be investigating their sibling's death. Wozencraft's attention to detail is what propels the story forward through a lot of pain and deceit as it reaches the book's unforgettable conclusion. THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE is not an easy read, but one that will stay with you after the last page is turned. This book is a dark and emotional journey that is not meant to be treated lightly.
Reviewed by Angel L. Soto, September 2006
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