Shadows on a Maine Christmas: An
Antique Print Mystery
Lea Wait
Perseverance, Sep 9 2014, $15.95
ISBN 9781564745477
Lovers Will Brower resides
in Maine while antique dealer Maggie Summer lives in New Jersey. Besides the issues of a long distance
relationship, the couple disagrees over adopting a child. Will insists never; while Maggie may soon
raise a little girl or two young sisters.
However, the couple agrees to share a Maine Christmas.
Maggie the obsessive anxiety queen fears when she tells her
beloved about the potential adoption, he will kick her butt back to the Garden
State. She adores the way he cares for
his ailing Aunt Nettie, but panics his caretaking blinds him to nurturing
others. She also frets over his desire
to remain in the Pine Tree State as affirmed by Will his seeking to buy a
home. However, Maggie biggest
consternation is that she lost her Will to realtor Jo Heartwood. Needing to forget her trepidations, Maggie
wonders what Aunt Nettie and her longtime friends imply criminally happened
when they were much younger. When
someone murders geriatric nurse Carrie Folk; Maggie, Maine State Trooper Nick
Strait and Aunt Nettie investigate especially after learning that the victim
was a blackmailer.
Returning to Maine (see Shadows on the Coast of
Maine and Shadows of a Down East Summer), the seventh Antique Print cozy (see Shadows
on a Cape Cod Wedding) is an enjoyable entry in which the
secondary elderly characters especially one with dementia own the
storyline. The homicide investigation
begins late though the informal inquiry into what happened decades ago starts
very early; as Lea Wait provides a deep look at senior citizen mental health,
abortion and adoption.
Harriet Klausner
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