Death Duties
Death Duties
Janet LaPierre
Perseverance Press
PO Box 2790, McKinleyville, CA 95519
ISBN: 188028474X $13.95
Janet LaPierre is a prolific mystery writer who has garnered nominations for the Shamus Award, the Anthony, and the Macavity awards as well as critical acclaim from readers and peers. LaPierre lives in Berkeley, and wanders around several counties for research with her trailer, laptop, and two dogs.
Cold cases are often the most challenging, and Patience and Verity Mackellar, Private Investigators, take on a thirty- year old case in Port Silva when Edgar Larson’s granddaughter asks them to investigate child molestation charges that Christina Larson feels sure her grandfather was innocent of. Chris has made a promise to her father on his deathbed, and she means to carry through. Unfortunately, Edgar committed suicide a few months after the charges were filed. One fact is plain. There were two anonymous calls to the police making the charges…one from a female and one from a male. As Patience and Verity investigate, it becomes clear that someone in town doesn’t want the investigation. When a woman Verity questions turns up dead of a gunshot wound in her pickup, the plot thickens and tongues wag: