Burning Meredith
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
A local reporter discovers murder amid the debris of a Montana mountain fire in this thriller series debut by the author of the Sarah Burke Mysteries.
In Clark's Fort, Montana, a fire on Meredith Mountain burns through Labor Day weekend. It is a terrifying sight, leaving a trail of havoc and destruction in its wake. Alice Adams, editor of the Clark's Fort Guardian, is determined to get the whole story with the help of her reporter nephew, Stuart Campbell. But when the fire is finally contained, the mop-up crew discover the burned body of a man under a fallen log. Suddenly Alice and Stuart have a new story to investigate.
It appears that the man died in the fire. But with no ID, and nobody able to identify the body, Alice and Stuart are determined to find out who the man was and what he was doing on Meredith Mountain. Could the stranger have been connected to the town's growing opioid problem?
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Retired school teacher Alice Adams, the heroine of this underwhelming series launch from Gunn (Denny's Law and five other Sarah Burke police procedurals), works part-time at the Guardian, a newspaper in Clark's Fort, Mont., where her 22-year-old nephew, Stuart Campbell, is employed as a reporter. When a horrific fire breaks out on Meredith Mountain, Stuart grabs his camera and sets out to record the action, while Alice takes his written notes and knocks them into passable shape. During the postfire cleanup, the charred remains of a man are found. The subsequent autopsy determines that the man did not die in the fire. Soon Alice and Stuart are out to discover the victim's identity and scoop the big-city news organizations. Readers will have fun watching the appealing Alice realize that, rather than baking cookies or doing yet more gardening, her true interest lies in her budding career as a journalist. On the downside, Gunn's approach to the story's drug element and the radical about-face in the behavior of a key character are na ve and forced. An abrupt ending doesn't help. Hopefully, the sequel will be better.
