The unsolved murders at a remote Wisconsin farmhouse half a century ago have receded into time. But one deranged man will do anything to make sure that all of Pepin County remembers that bloody day. When a quantity of dangerous pesticides is stolen from the local co-op, Deputy Sheriff Claire Watkins is called in to investigate. The thief has left one bizarre clue: the finger bone of a child long dead. The pesticides soon reappear with devastating effect - in flowerbeds, in animal feed, and in a fatal concoction at a Fourth of July picnic. Each time, a tiny human bone is left at the scene. With the help of Harold Peabody, the quirky, aging editor of the Durand Daily, Claire unravels the secrets of the past, leading her to a pair of young lovers, a man enraged over his mother’s death, an obsessive recluse, and the deputy who first discovered the corpses of the Schuler family. Claire desperately races against time to find the madman before he uses the lethal pesticide again. But he won’t be stopped. Not until he gets what he wants.
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"I have been reading the entire series of these mystery books. Really fun books about Pepin area & the locals. I like the older books much better than the more recent Maiden Rock book. I would recommend starting at the beginning of the series if you want to get into it. " — Carrie (4 out of 5 stars)
"I have been reading the entire series of these mystery books. Really fun books about Pepin area & the locals. I like the older books much better than the more recent Maiden Rock book. I would recommend starting at the beginning of the series if you want to get into it. "
" Catchy start and well developed story. New author to me. I will definitely check out other books by her. "
" I couldn't put this one down! As a bonus to being well written, it was set in Western Wisconsin! "
" Good, local author....want to read more by her! "
" Horrible Horrible book "
" great mystery. the story kept me involved. bonus points for taking place in pepin, WI (near where I went to college). "
" I really enjoyed this book. It was chilling and disturbing everything that a mystery should be. Plus I loved that it had a female Sheriff who solves the mystery. "
" excellent book, really enjoyed it, couldn't put it down. "
" great series and a local! "
" I adore Mary Logues books. She is a good mystery writer, fast past books - all of her characters are realistice, intellegent and well developed. "
" I have been reading the entire series of these mystery books. Really fun books about Pepin area & the locals. I like the older books much better than the more recent Maiden Rock book. I would recommend starting at the beginning of the series if you want to get into it. "
" A 50-year-old unsolved murder of an entire family resurfaces when finger bones are found at the scenes of new murders, fingers that had been severed from the victims of the cold case. "
" A very interesting "murder mystery" with a very gentle ending -- I liked that. "
" I really enjoyed this book. "
Mary Logue is an award-winning poet and lives with writer Pete Hautman in Wisconsin.
Joyce Bean is an accomplished audiobook narrator and director. In addition to having won several AudioFile Earphones Awards, she has been nominated multiple times for the prestigious Audie Award. Equally adept at narrating fiction and nonfiction, and she also narrates audiobooks under the name Jane Brown.
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