Beyond Confusion
A Latouche County Library Mystery
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
The 2008 election is over, and librarian Meg McLean is thrilled that the library levy passed. Despite an economy in free fall, Meg’s personal and professional lives are thriving. Tribal Chief Madeline Thomas of the Klalos offers an inherited farmhouse for a branch library—but Meg’s rival and vengeful enemy plans to contest the will. Disasters begin to strike—the farmhouse is vandalized; the chief’s home is firebombed; and when her rival falls to her death, Meg becomes a murder suspect. Meg and her romantic interest, Undersheriff Rob Neill, must confront religious zealotry, bullying, and troubled mother-daughter relationships to penetrate the morass of bad karma and maze of crimes. “In Simonson’s taut third Latouche County library mystery librarian Margaret “Meg” McLean has her hands full . . . . Simonson’s ambitious plot casts a wide net—from treating themes of racism and religious intolerance to thwarted love and good old-fashioned greed—but she pulls it off with a sure hand.” —Publishers Weekly
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Simonson's taut third Latouche County library mystery (after 2009's An Old Chaos), librarian Margaret "Meg" McLean has her hands full with vindictive Marybeth Jackman, her second-in-command who openly covets Meg's job. Yet Marybeth's aggressive behavior isn't limited to the library or its employees, extending into nearby Two Falls, Wash., where a nasty property dispute with the local Klalos the county's most numerous Native American tribe has reached the boiling point. When Marybeth falls to her death, there's no shortage of suspects including the victim's troubled daughter, several colleagues, a number of Klalos, and even Meg. Complicating the case is an attack on the library's bookmobile, putting its popular librarian/driver Annie Baldwin in the hospital. Simonson's ambitious plot casts a wide net from treating themes of racism and religious intolerance to thwarted love and good old-fashioned greed but she pulls it off with a sure hand.
