Holy Terror in the Hebrides (Dorothy Martin Mysteries, No. 3) - Hardcover

Dams, Jeanne M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802733115 ISBN 13: 9780802733115

Publisher: Walker & Co, 1997

Synopsis

In the aftermath of a young American's fatal fall, Dorothy Martin discovers that everyone in her tour group visiting a Scottish isle had a grudge against the victim, in the third novel in an Agatha Award-winning series.

About this title

About the Author:

Jeanne M. Dams lives in South Bend, Indiana. A Notre Dame graduate and retired teacher, Ms. Dams is also the author of The Body in the Transept, winner of the Agatha Award for Best First "Malice Domestic" novel, and Trouble in the Town Hall. She is currently at work on Dorothy Martin's next investigation.

From Kirkus Reviews:

Sixtyish Dorothy Martin, a widowed American now living in the English village of Sheresbury (Trouble in the Town Hall, 1996, etc.), happily accepts an invitation from friends Tom and Lynn Anderson to spend two weeks on the tiny island of Iona in Scotland. When Tom's illness delays the couple's departure, though, Dorothy makes the journey alone. Discovering that she's left the key to their cottage at home, Dorothy checks into a small hotel run by Hester and Andrew Campbell. A group from Illinois is also staying there--the winners of a contest to find the most community- dedicated members of various Chicago churches, with Rabbi Jake Goldstein subbing for a Quaker winner stricken with appendicitis. Iona is a stop on their tour, and no one seems happy about it--or with one another: Sister Teresa, a feminist nun in mufti; elegant Unitarian Grace Desmond; Hattie Mae Brown, a Baptist choir leader; Lutheran organist Chris Olafson; unctuous, unpopular youth leader Bob Williams; and short-fused garden-designer Janet Douglas, a Presbyterian. A sight-seeing excursion to Fingal's Cave makes a slow-moving Dorothy, arriving after others have left, the only witness when Bob Williams falls to his death from a rocky height. She becomes obsessed with the idea that the fall was murder, not accident, and spends the rest of her stay trying to prove it. Some interesting characters, a graphic description of a humongous storm, and a picture of the island's craggy isolation are well done. But Dorothy's relentless and self-absorbed maunderings, along with a nearly nonexistent plot, bring the third in this series closer to chatty travel guide than mystery. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Walker & Co
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0802733115
• ISBN 13: 9780802733115
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 184