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Summary: Highly recommended
Review: Janet Lapierre is simply a wonderful writer. She creates people we believe in, describes her Northern California Coastal town settings so clearly we can taste the fog and smell the redwoods, and devises crisp, clean plots that feel like events that just might happen to us one day, but we hope won't. In "Death Duties, she's done it again, brilliantly.
Patience McKellar and her daughter Verity, of "Patience Smith Investigations," take on the matter of Edgar Larson's death years before -- he committed suicide after being accused, anonymously, of child molestation. His daughter wants his name cleared.
Nothing stirs up trouble like turning over the rocks of an old scandal in a small town. It's the age-old story about people and the consequences of their actions, and eventually, murder. This story unfolds so sneakily, and we're so caught up in the day to day lives of Verity and Patience and their child - and boy, does LaPierre do children well - that we almost forget about the danger, the menace, the fact that some resident of nice cozy Port Silva isn't in fact nice at all.
If you've read the previous Port Silva mysteries, you'll recognize some of the other players in this tale too - it's like coming home. And if you haven't read those, what a treat you have in store.
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