Shadow in the Glass
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Publisher Description
Murder rocks a wedding celebration at an idyllic lakeside home—and librarian-turned-sleuth Greer Hogan could be next on the killer’s guest list in this second exciting installment, perfect for fans of Louise Penny.
Librarian Greer Hogan is on hand to celebrate her old friend Sarah Whitaker’s nuptials at the Whitaker summer home on beautiful Mirror Lake, just outside the upstate New York village of Lake Placid. But Greer has an ulterior motive—to gather information that could reopen the investigation into her husband’s murder, a crime for which she believes an innocent man went to prison. Her plans come to a shuddering halt when a wedding guest goes missing and turns up dead in the lake. The guest, Brittany Miles, was an employee of the Whitaker family whom Sarah had long suspected was up to no good at work.
The police have no leads, but Greer—an avid reader of crime fiction who possesses an uncanny knack for deduction—begins her own investigation. She learns that the victim was seen with a mystery man right before she disappeared. Then the autopsy reveals that she didn’t drown in the lake after all, but in the reflecting pool in the Whitaker garden.
The suspect list is as long as the guest list itself, with no apparent motive. Now, Greer must rely on the wisdom of her favorite fictional detectives to tease out truth from lies—and keep herself out of the killer’s sights.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Hilliard's enjoyable if sometimes sluggish sequel to 2021's The Unkindness of Ravens takes widowed librarian Greer Hogan to the Adirondacks for the third wedding of her "brilliant, beautiful, and stinking rich" friend, Sarah Whitaker. Greer has her own agenda, to determine whether any of the wedding guests, many of whom are staying at the Whitaker family's large summer house, know anything about her husband Danny's murder three years earlier. Greer is surprised by the tension she senses in several of the guests, and when a body turns up, she investigates. Repetition slows the action, as when Greer finds something that may be relevant, then recaps her discovery, sometimes more than once, and it can be difficult to keep all the undeveloped minor characters straight. This works well as a contemporary take on the traditional country house mystery, though, as shown by using cellphones to establish timing and verification of motive, and the author's flair for physical description is a plus. No matter that Greer makes little progress solving Danny's murder. Readers will look forward to further developments on the solution to that crime in future books.
