Suspension of disbelief is a tricky thing in crime fiction. You need to achieve it, and yet a writer can never assume they've succeeded at it because success is entirely in the eye of the reader. In the case of A WHISPER CAME, my attempts to achieve suspension resulted in several bruising tumble to the terra firma of realism, accompanied by a different kind of disbelief — that a former newspaper journalist could create a newspaper journalist no one could believe.

Stacie Davis, a young Boston Globe, initially reports on the finding of a dead water in waters off Cape Cod, in a peripheral area of the Globe's reach. It's the sort of news that I, as a former reporter at a metro daily, know merits maybe four to six column inches in inside page of an inside section, far away from page one. But not in A W HISPER CAME. In a time of intensely tight budgets, we're expected to believe that this story so engaged the eccentric whimsies of the paper's top editor that he not only sends her out to Chatham but pays for her increasingly expensive expenses for several days as he encourages to wring every dry drop from this single waterlogged corpse. I'd hate to see that editor have to explain himself tp his publisher come budgeting time.

So. That's not plausible, and especially not as a pretext for the trouble Stacie gets herself into in the service of chasing leads on this story where none exist, and another implausibility piles up — Stacie herself becomes the lead suspect in the crime when he convinces a local fisherman to take her to the lighthouse island near where the body was recovered, in the service of ... well, what, exactly? An arid Sunday feature pegged to a lead-free story? Here we're expected to believe that local authorities are so starved for leads that they're willing to pin the whole thing on Stacie on the flimsiest fo evidence just so they can close the case and move on.

That leads to further implausibilities featuring a local bestselling mystery novelist with an oily bonhomie, and to an utterly flaccid climax involving that hoariest of crime fiction tropes: the convenient case of amnesia that clears up just in time to save the heroine's life. (That is, after she ignores the amnesia sufferer's repeated calls, which happens after she begs him to help her any way he can ....)

While A WHISPER CAME fails the suspension-of-disbelief test, and doesn't do much to develop interesting characters, it does have a sense of Chatham and the Cape geography and culture that fully engages the five senses as much as one of the mystery author's gourmet meals, thought at times it feels like a research dump that's a little too detached from the story and thus bogs it down. But by then, it's already bogged down by its other shortcomings.

Stacie is a lovely character. Great mystery book. A young woman is found dead near Cape Cod and is a mystery how she got there. Stacie, a Boston journalist is trying to find out the truth and she is right to do it.
Thank you Netgalley for this nice adventure.

A Whisper Came deals with a body found near Chatham and reporter Stacie Davis who is sent there for a story. The victim is found in old fashioned clothing which can not be explained. This brings up legends of a haunted lighthouse nearby and when a trip to that lighthouse brings about an attack and a case of amnesia that has everyone wondering what is really going on!

Sadly this book just wasn’t for me, there is nothing fundamentally wrong with it I just could not get into it. I found the characters unbelievable and the writing wordy and repetitive. I really wanted to love it but sadly I just couldn’t but would happily read more by the author to see what other ideas they come up with.

The fast paced action grabbed my attention from the first page and held it until the last. I finished reading it in one sitting and there were so many twists that I didn't see coming! Love!

Thank you @netgalley and BooksGoSocial for the advance eBook in exchange for my honest review.

A Jane Doe found in the water, a mysterious island, local legends, and lost memories all make up part of this gripping, fast paced novel. Pros: lots of character, moving storyline, plot twists I didn't see coming, quick read, engaging story. Cons: Stacie acted a bit naive for a hot shot reporter, basically a "blonde don't go into that basement you are going to get killed" character at times, a few characters that kepts showing up didn't really add a lot to the story, I'm looking at you clingy ex-boyfriend. Overall, an enjoyable book with a surprise ending, and I'm okay with the way the book ended, jand can't wait to read more.

When the body of an unknown woman is found in the water in Nantucket Sound, Stacie, a reporter dying for her big break, gets assigned the story. While trying to dodge a persistant ex, Stacie heads down to the Cape, and writes a series of well received, front page stories, everything seems to be going good. After a trip with charter captain Carl to the mysterious Monomoy Island goes horribly wrong, Stacie gets set adrift from both the Boston Globe and her new local friends. Determined to prove her innocence, Stacie barrels straight into danger, with no backup, determined to solve the mysteries.

I was auto approved for this on Netgalley.

They synopsis for this novel was that there was a mysterious lighthouse with a ghost, and I love ghosts and I love lighthouses, especially when mysterious bodies are discovered. And for the most part this does form the crux of the novel. For me though it was to quick a read and the plot was more discerning reporter.

I could have done with more creepy lighthouse, more stranded on an Island and less of the other characters that brought nothing to is. I don’t even know why the ex boyfriend was mentioned as he brought nothing to the story.

I really enjoyed this but felt lit was bit rushed at the end which was a pity as it was a decent read.

Rather short. On the one hand not good as characters needed a bit more flesh on them, but good in that the story felt complete as it was. I also had had enough of Stacey's naivety - she's young but hot-shot reporter allegedly after all. Nice idea tying modern murder with historical stories though. Thanks to NetGalley and BooksGoSocial for an advance copy in exchange for my honest review.

Thank you Net Galley and the publisher for a copy of this book to review.

A Whisper Came
by Keith Yocum

Crime, mystery and a hint of paranormal, this book was a super fast read. Stacie, a reporter for the Boston Globe, is sent to the Cape to report on the case of a woman's body that was found mysteriously floating in the water.
The story has some interesting historical fiction weaved in which give it a bit of a haunting feel. Overall the story had good bones but it lost steam and the ending was a little amature. For me this was a 3 star but honestly it was a decent book with a dumb ending.

This was a good quick mystery! I enjoyed reading it but didn't love it! The writing was good! The story was good! So I honestly don't know where it fell flat!
But overall I liked it!