Intensive Scare Unit (Sarah Deane Mysteries) - Hardcover

Borthwick, J. S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312324944 ISBN 13: 9780312324940

Publisher: Minotaur Books, 2004

Synopsis

During an especially cold, rainy May, three families move to the recently opened Ocean Tide community on the coast of Maine. Not long after their arrival, a decaying corpse is found lying in the rough of their beautifully manicured golf course-disrupting the idyllic community.

When a second body is discovered in a fertilizer shed, just yards away from the seventeenth green, the local authorities are puzzled over the sudden rash of dead bodies and their link to Ocean Tide's newest arrivals.

Despite her own misgivings and her husband Alex's warnings, Sarah Deane, an English professor and sometime amateur sleuth, becomes entangled in the investigation. What she uncovers promises to rock the very foundation of the Ocean Tide community.

J. S. Borthwick keeps us guessing with another sharp and literate Sarah Deane mystery.

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From the Back Cover

Perfectly combining the regional delights of Maine with an intriguing whodunit, author J.S. Borthwick introduces her twelfth Sarah Deane mystery, a medical conundrum of death by unnatural causes in a New England hospital...

ER, ICU...and R.I.P.

Crotchety, seventy-something Julia Clancy of High Hope Farm feels a little wobbly one August morning. With stables to clean and riding lessons to give, the stoic New Englander ignores her symptoms-and ends up in the ER with a heart attack. Even then, she's insisting it's indigestion; even then, her sharp eyes don't miss a thing. And a glimpse of something highly unusual will entangle Julia Clancy in the baffling murder of a hospital VIP. The police soon have suspects galore and no hard evidence. But Julia tells her niece Sarah Deane what she saw...and what she fears: that the killer will get her next. Now amateur sleuth Sarah needs to make her own diagnosis of Julia's revelation and sew up the case before the star witness gets a fatal visit from Dr. Death....

"We can recognize cozy country when we sink our sensible walking shoes in it...Borthwick does this sort of thing beautifully in her durable series." --The New York Times Book Review

"[Borthwick] has a sharp eye for character and setting." -Chicago Tribune

About the Author

J. S. Bortwick lives with her family on the Maine coast, where many of her mysteries are set.

About this edition

• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0312324944
• ISBN 13: 9780312324940
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384