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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.
The world was out of balance. It had been so for nearly fifty years. Only he could see it. Only he could change it.
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.
The truth must be told. Or more will die. The flowers and the birds were only the beginning. . . .
Written with Mary Logue’s trademark power and compassion, Bone Harvest is a bold, brilliant thriller that carries the reader deep into the heart of the Wisconsin bluffs country, into the hearts of its people—and to a startling conclusion.
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- ISBN: 9780345478429
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May 24, 2004
Logue's latest in her appealing series featuring deputy sheriff Claire Watkins (Glare Ice
, etc.) is set as usual in the small Wisconsin town of Fort St. Antoine. Someone has stolen deadly pesticides and is using them in a series of escalating crimes: first, a bed of flowers is wiped out, then a flock of chickens, and finally the lemonade at a Fourth of July celebration is contaminated. Claire soon links the poisonings to the 50-year-old unsolved slaughter of seven members of a local farm family, the Schulers. Each of the Schulers had a finger removed; now the dried bones of those fingers are showing up at the scenes of the recent crimes, and Claire is convinced that the 50-year anniversary of the killings will end in disaster if she can't find the person responsible. Her daughter, 11-year-old Meg, is sent safely out of town, but boyfriend Rich is still in the picture and bent on asking Claire to marry him. All these continuing characters are winning, and even the killer, once exposed, is sympathetic. Fine writing, a charming setting and an attractive and intelligent heroine add up to a satisfying and pleasurable read. Agent, Jane Chelius.
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Booksellers should push this series—a step up from the average female-in-peril offering—to men as well as women. -
April 1, 2004
In the fourth case for rural Wisconsin deputy sheriff Claire Watkins, a deranged numerologist steals some industrial-strength insect and weed killer and begins poisoning his way up the food chain, leaving behind a telltale trail of human fingers. They point to the horrific massacre of a German farming family some 50 years ago. Claire enlists the help of a newspaperman with a long memory in her race to solve the old murders and prevent fresh woe. Meanwhile, love interest Rich keeps his hand in, deepening their relationship with desultory doggedness. Logue employs a score of viewpoints, which has the reader clambering into and out of the nondescript personae of numerous bit players and dilutes the book's psychological depth, keeping it less on a par with Thomas H. Cook or Ruth Rendell than with an episode of " Law & Order--"a good episode, however, with ample suspense and swift turnings to keep readers up well past bedtime. For larger collections and fans of downtoearth regional mystery writers, such as Jance, Barr, or Pickard.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2004, American Library Association.)
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