When Meg Corey's mother Elizabeth shows up at the Orchard
unannounced Meg is nonplussed. It is not like her mother to
drop by, especially without calling first. The timing
couldn't have been worse. Meg is struggling with the hard
daily labor of the first harvest she's worked at the
orchard, and although she has been pitching in, the hard
work is doubled when an accident leaves them short-handed
with far too many apples still on the trees.
When she discovers her mother was in the region to visit an
old college friend (a male old college friend) while Meg's
father is off on a fishing jaunt, she jumps to the worst
conclusion-- her mother is having an affair. When the old
friend, Professor Daniel Weston, shows up dead, Elizabeth is
the only suspect the police can come up with. As Meg helps
her mother make sense of the murder, it becomes
clear he was excited by a new lead in his field of study,
the life of Emily Dickinson. But how could something from so
far in the past cost a man his life?
Connolly has written a solid fourth entry in the Orchard
Mystery series. Readers can expect the same well-crafted
plot with interesting characters old and new.
Rife with Emily Dickinson history and memorabilia, A KILLER
CROP is another journey into rural new England, this time
flavored with the high stakes world of academia's publish or
perish... and sometimes both.
A Suspicious Death is Ripe for Rumor...
When Meg Corey's mother arrives unannounced in Granford,
Massachusetts, Meg's sure it's not just to pay a surprise
visit to the apple of her eye. The timing is terrible -
it's harvest season and Meg is understaffed in the
orchard. Plus Elizabeth Corey is clearly hiding the real
purpose of her trip from her daughter.
After an English professor from Ambrose - who is an old
friend of her mother - is found dead on the floor of a
cider house, Elizabeth is interrogated by the police, and
then grilled by her daughter. She is indeed keeping a
secret - but could Meg's own mother really have committed
murder? One thing is clear: someone decided to teach the
professor a lesson. And the key to unlocking the mystery
may lie with a poet who could not stop for death...
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