Reviewed By: Ruth Jordan - RAM
Bone Harvest
Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC
Mary Logue
Class/Genre: Mystery Woman Main Character Police Procedural
Series: Claire Watkins # 4
June 2004, Ballantine Books, 200 pages/$23.95
Deputy Sheriff Claire Watkins is back and writer Mary Logue has out done herself. The town of Fort St. Antoine appears to be the ideal of small town America. Every town holds its secrets. As the lazy days of summer begin to unfold in this community overlooking Lake Pepin Clair is called out on a robbery. Two farming chemicals have been stolen. Is it a farmer fallen on hard times? Or perhaps something more sinister? If you’re a reader familiar with Ms. Logue’s work than you know the answer.
The stolen chemicals are a tool for our villain. They use the highly toxic substances for escalating acts of well planned violence against this Wisconsin hamlet. They put the police department under seige. Police soon know if they want the events to stop they must look into an evil lost in the past. Fifty years ago a family died. Seven victims; an unsolved crime. It has haunted our perpetrator and now it’s up to Clair to resolve this horrific instance. Logue writes a regional mystery that sings. She knows her locale. She knows her characters and she knows that evil is everywhere. In BONE HARVEST she tells a story of two eras and one community. The terror of the present is woven with the festering wound of the past. In Claire Watkins, Logue has given us a heroine who works the small town police procedural with an eerie efficiency.
Ruth Jordan - RAM
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