A House By The Side Of The Road - Softcover

Gleiter, Jan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312966938 ISBN 13: 9780312966935

Publisher: St. Martin's Dead Letter, 1999

Synopsis

Someone in a peaceful Pennsylvania town has a brutal murder on his conscience...

...but who and why remain a mystery-- until Meg Kessinger moves in. The house she's inherited from an aunt is dilapidated, but she adores it-- and sets about restoring it with the help of a hunky, laid-back lawyer; a handsome, witty artist; and the secretive husband of her new girlfriend down the road. But soon Meg's rustic rhapsody is blighted by telltale traces of an unseen intruder's search for...what? Her determination to piece together rumors about the sexpot who lived there before her, and the convenient death of an old lady with a twitchy heart, will drag her into a perilous undertow of greed, cunning, and desperation that could turn her dream house into a waking nightmare...

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About the Author

Jan Gleiter is the author of the award-winning Lie Down with Dogs. She lives in Chicago, Illinois.

From Kirkus Reviews

Fleeing an unsuitable relationship back in Chicago, where her noncommittal boyfriend seemed to be fleeing her, freelance writer Meg Kessigner is happy to have a refuge: her late great-aunt Hannah Ehrlich's house in sheltered Harrison, PA. Despite the attractiveness of the old-fashioned kitchen and the warmth of her neighbor Christine Ruschman and Christine's 12-year-old daughter Jane, Meg would be a lot less sanguine about swapping Chicago for bucolic Harrison if she knew that Angie Morrison, the no-account tenant who'd been living in the house ever since Hannah died, didn't renew her lease because she was murdered, and there's an excellent chance that Hannah was helped to her grave too. Instead of worrying about the mortality rate at her address, Meg concentrates at first on refinishing the kitchen floor, coaching Little League baseball, training a stray dog she's taken in, and conducting dalliances with two eligible bachelors--carpenter/painter Jack Deutsch, and Michael Mulcahy, Hannah's nephew and executor--one of whom is obviously the killer (for how else could Meg decide which one to stay with?). It's a tribute to Gleiter (Lie Down with Dogs, 1996) that she not only keeps you guessing about both men but keeps you absorbed in Meg's domestic rituals as she's slowly immersing her in the mystery. An appealingly low-key idyll, even if the menace, like Meg, takes its time settling in. -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Dead Letter
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0312966938
• ISBN 13: 9780312966935
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 272