Misty fall weather should make for an idyllic walk in the New England woods and a needed respite from Reverend Wanda Duff\'s duties.
Death in the Woods will have you looking forward to reading about Wanda and Rye\'s next ca.
With pithy writing and a fast-paced storyline, Death in the Woods is a perfect page-turner of a read that will leave you eagerly awaiting the next in the series! -Jane Willan, author of the Sister Agatha and Father Selwyn Mystery series Mankin and Tirabassi draw upon the eerie isolation of late-autumn in stick-season New England to deliver a complex and chilling Mystery filled with characters plucked straight from reality.
A compelling narrative filled with wry humor, a complex investigation, and characters that resonate.
Wry humor, twisty sleuthing, and what Jane Willan (author of the Sister Agatha and Father Selwyn Mysteries) calls punchy writing and fall-in-love-with-me characters in the enjoyable setting of a newsy small town come together to make Death in the Woods a perfect one-sitting read.
Without everyone knowing a killer is among them.
Without everyone talking.
Without everyone speculating.
The truth is, nothing happens in a quaint New England town without everyone noticing.
Unfortunately, solving the murder of drama teacher Jonathan Thorne isn\'t an undertaking Wanda and Rye can accomplish without involving their ever-widening circle of family and friends, which means that in addition to investigating, they have to resolve a few personal problems of their own.
Rye\'s own life is upended, period.
She has no choice, really, but to carry the news of her discovery directly to no-nonsense Assistant Principal Rye, who understands because her own life was upended by last summer\'s investigation.
But ever since Wanda and her friend Rye solved a murder together, no one has wanted the reverend to take on anything more dangerous than choir practice.
And even as Wanda said a prayer for the dead man and called for help, she couldn\'t shake the feeling of another presence, one that would compel her to follow a path out of these woods to find a killer.
In the twilight, everything else was indistinct.
She only saw his hand-cold, palm up.
But she should\'ve known she couldn\'t really catch a break.
She\'ll just take a stroll with her dog, breathe in the cool air, and remember that she loves her job and doesn\'t really long for a life of solitude, even when the quiet red-and-gold patch of forest tempts her with it.
Misty fall weather should make for an idyllic walk in the New England woods and a needed respite from Reverend Wanda Duff\'s duties
