See Also Murder
A Marjorie Trumaine Mystery
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
1964—Life on the North Dakota farm hasn’t always been easy for Marjorie Trumaine. She has begun working as a professional indexer to help with the bills—which have only gotten worse since the accident that left her husband, Hank, blind and paralyzed. When her nearest neighbors are murdered in their beds, though, Marjorie suddenly has to deal with new and terrifying problems. Sheriff Hilo Jenkins brings her a strange amulet, found clutched in the hand of her murdered neighbor, and asks her to quietly find out what it is. Marjorie uses all the skills she has developed as an indexer to research the amulet and look into the murders, but as she closes in on the killer, and people around her continue to die, she realizes that the murderer is also closing in on her. From the Trade Paperback edition.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set in 1964, this terrific first in a projected series opener from Sweazy (The Devil's Bones) introduces Marjorie Trumaine, a farm wife and book indexer in Dickinson, N.Dak. Indexing keeps Marjorie's life afloat. A voracious reader and list maker, she also provides care for her beloved husband, Hank, after a hunting accident left him blind and paralyzed. Noting that "Mother and Father were stiff-upper-lip kind of people," she shoulders her burdens and struggles to suppress her occasional lustful thoughts about a local deputy. She's horrified when Sheriff Hilo Jenkins tells her that someone has slit the throats of her neighbors Erik and Lida Knudsen, and she's not happy when Hilo asks her to research a strange copper amulet found in Erik's dead hand. As more people die, Marjorie becomes increasingly convinced she'll never feel safe again. The characters are superbly drawn, and the prairie its flatness, winds, and critters is an evocative character in its own right. Sweazy is also an author of western fiction and has won the WWA Spur Award for best short fiction.
