See Also Murder
Larry D. Sweazy
Prometheus/Seventh
Street Books, May 5 2015, $15.95
ISBN: 9781633880061
In 1964 Marjorie and Hank Trumaine live on their farm near
Dickinson, North Dakota. Since Hank
suffered a horrific hunting accident that left him crippled, blind and totally
dependent; Marjorie stoically, with neighbors’ help, sees to her husband’s
every need without complaint. The
farmer’s wife buries most of her personal desires as a book indexer for H.P.
Howard and Sons; though at times when she is idle she dreams of a tryst with a
local law enforcement hunk.
Sheriff Hilo Jenkins visits the Trumaine spread to warn Marjorie
that an unknown slasher cut the throats of her neighbors Erik and Lida
Knudsen. Shook by the trauma, Marjorie
wants to hide in a cocoon, but reluctantly conducts research at Hilo’s request
into a copper amulet that Erik grasped in a death grip. Soon Hilo’s wife Ardith while spending time
with Hank vanishes and assumed dead, and someone slashes more locals.
The first Marjorie Trumaine regional historical amateur sleuth is
a refreshing whodunit starring a unique “detective” who does little detecting
as we define it (for instance her indexing of the case is awesome). Readers will feel transported to 1964 rustic
North Dakota where a serial killer terrorizes a once serene community.
Harriet Klausner
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