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Publishers Weekly Review

Beekeeper Sara Hoving's past comes to haunt her in this compelling and solidly written suspense novel. When her mother-in-law persuades a reluctant Sara to take the lead role in a pageant commemorating the bicentennial of their hometown, Taconic Hills (``a tiny hamlet halfway between the Hudson River and New England''), a series of bizarre mishaps ensues, culminating in a murder and a fire that nearly destroys the Hovings' farmhouse. Struggling to make some sense of these disasters, terrified by how closely they parallel certain oddly similar events of 200 years earlier, Sara must come to grips for the first time with the key fact of her personal history: her mother's mysterious abandonment of her when she was only four. As she finds herself inextricably drawn into the puzzling tangle the bicentennial celebration has become, long-buried memories of the day her mother disappeared begin to surface. She suspects that her father, Roy Stanton, her mother-in-law, Ruth Hoving, and the other prominent members of their small community possess secrets that will bring her closer to the truth. Cleverly intertwining all the plot threads, Wallace ( A Single Stone ) makes connections for Sara--and for the reader as well--that provide a satisfying and entirely credible resolution. (Aug.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Booklist Review

A suspense-riddled contemporary novel set in a small New England town with a past that refuses to stay buried. Sara Hoving is a married woman, a beekeeper, and a reluctant participant in a play conceived by her mother-in-law as the focal point of a town centennial celebration. Sara's reluctance grows into terror when disastrous events in the play, which reenacts incidents in the lives of the town's founding families, start happening to cast and crew members. Sara decides she must discover who is responsible for these "accidents" and begins by uncovering dark secrets of her own family. Wallace is a master at evoking menace within her normal-seeming fictional town, and her cast of villains is vast, her timing perfect. ~--Denise Perry Donavin

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Marilyn Wallace is a writer, editor and Chair of the 1999 Edgar Awards.

A Case of Loyalties (1987) received the Macavity Award for best first novel. She has written a number of other books and edited the anthology Sisters in Crime since its inception in 1989. Her short stories have appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Woman's Eye.

(Bowker Author Biography)