Clause & Effect
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4.6 • 9 Ratings
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Publisher Description
As a professional editor, Mikki Lincoln is used to crimes against the English language. As an amateur sleuth, she's finding catching criminals a lot more dangerous than catching
typos . . .
Nestled in the picturesque Catskills, the village of Lenape Hollow prepares to celebrate the 225th anniversary of its founding. Freelance book editor Mikki Lincoln has been drafted to update and correct the script, left over from the town's bicentennial, which is housed at the historical society.
The building is being renovated for the first time since that last celebration. But when construction reveals a shocking discovery—human remains walled up in a fireplace—Mikki shifts focus from cold-reading to solving a cold case.
Just as her investigation seems to have hit a brick wall, a new murder rattles the townspeople. Clearly, someone is hiding a few skeletons in the closet. Now Mikki will need to go off script to make a connection between the bicentennial bones and the current homicide. But if this book editor isn't careful, she may be the next one sentenced to death . . .
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Retiree Mikki Lincoln is doing well back in her hometown of Lenape Hollow, N.Y., in Dunnett's enjoyable sequel to 2018's Crime & Punctuation. In particular, her reputation as a freelance book editor has prompted the historical society to ask her to rewrite the script of the town's bicentennial play to be performed at this year's 225th celebration. When a wall collapses during construction inside the historical society's building and a mummified corpse tumbles out, Mikki believes it to be Grace Yarrow, the original playwright who supposedly left town just before the play was performed. When her hunch is confirmed, Mikki digs deeper, despite the warnings of Det. Jonathan Hazlett, and stirs up a hornet's nest that results in another murder and puts Mikki's own life in danger. Grace turns out to have had a promiscuous history involving any number of local males, and one feisty lady is determined to bring a killer to justice and right a couple of others wrongs while she's at it. Cozy fans are in for a treat.
