Footprints to Murder
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
When a man is murdered in the woods and the main suspect appears to be a big-footed legend, amateur sleuth Hannah Ives steps in to solve the mystery.
Hannah is delighted to reconnect with her former roommate, Susan Lockley, owner of Scarborough Fairs, at a college reunion, and agrees to step in when Susan’s assistant drops out of managing the Sasquatch Sesquicentennial in Granite Falls, Oregon. But when Martin Radcliffe, a professional debunker, is found murdered, surrounded by gigantic footprints, the culprit appears, or was meant to appear, obvious: Bigfoot.
Fantasy or fact? As the conference disintegrates into a chaos of finger pointing, mistrust, and fear, it falls to Hannah to restore order. Working closely with Jake, a retired policeman and his K-9, Harley, Hannah hastens to stave off the vigilantes and solve the crime before Bigfoot, if he exists, comes one step closer to extinction.
“As Talley’s 15th cozy reminds us once more, you can’t take her genial heroine anywhere without her stumbling into a different form of homicide.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Citations regarding unusual humanoid creatures, most dating to the late 19th century, head each chapter of this entertaining entry.” —Publishers Weekly
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Talley's well-plotted 15th Hannah Ives mystery (after 2015's Daughter of Ashes), Hannah agrees to help her former college roommate Susan Lockley, the owner/manager of an event-planner service, put on the Sasquatch Sesquicentennial in Flat Rock, Ore. The conference attracts such folks as debunker Martin Radcliffe of TV's Don't You Believe It!, adventurer Randall Frazier (whom Susan calls a "superannuated Indiana Jones"), and cryptozoologist true believer Jim Davis, who has developed a surveillance system using leftover equipment from a defunct Radio Shack franchise. At convention headquarters in Flat Rock Mountain Lodge, Hannah meets retired cop Jake Cummings, who monitors a Bigfoot-sightings database. After a possible Sasquatch sighting, Hannah and Jake discover Radcliffe's body in the woods. In the subsequent murder investigation, Hannah helps Det. Lt. Barbara Cook weed out a large roster of potentially dangerous suspects. Citations regarding unusual humanoid creatures, most dating to the late 19th century, head each chapter of this entertaining entry.
