Consider The Crows - Softcover

Weir

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0373261721 ISBN 13: 9780373261727

Publisher: Worldwide Library, 1995

Synopsis

Officer Susan Wren tries to discover the link between the murder of a young woman who had come to Hampstead to protect a secret and the death of a prominent citizen whose body was discovered in a well. Reprint.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly

Weir's second Susan Wren tale, following The Winter Widow , finds the transplanted (from San Francisco) chief of police of Hampstead, Kans., struggling against her own townspeople to solve two recent murders. Lynnelle Hames came to Hampstead in search of the mother who gave her up for adoption, but she winds up dead instead. As does, in short order, Dr. Audrey Kalazar, the ill-tempered vice-chancellor of local Emerson College. Time turns against Susan as her boss, the mayor, loses patience, and the citizens of Hampstead risk shooting each other with the guns they've bought for protection from the serial killer they're sure is loose. Weir's appealing heroine gets tired and hungry, is sometimes short-tempered and often lonely in her new town. Most importantly, she doesn't have all the answers, even when the clues are right in front of her. Unmistakably present, the clues are hidden among a satisfying number of red herrings sure to please the reader eager to solve the mystery along with the sleuth. This deceptively simple mystery is not easily cracked, a tribute to Weir's skills.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Kirkus Reviews

Former San Francisco cop Susan Wren, now a widow and the police chief in tiny, insular Hampstead, Kansas, discovers that Lynnelle--the poor waif found dead in the woods--thought local college math professor Carena Egersund was the birth-mother who relinquished her years before. Did Carena kill her to keep her silent? Carena is clearly worried about something--perhaps her sister Caitlin's latest descent into schizzy hallucinations. Or her recent brouhaha with college vice-chancellor Audrey Kalazar, whose daughter was using Lynnelle's place to meet her boyfriend. Then Audrey disappears; her secretary stews--and tells a lie or two--and her writer-husband admits to an affair. Are the two deaths connected? Susan and Officer Parkhurst sort through a passel of red herrings and emerge with...the least likely suspect. Plot heavy, like The Winter Widow (1992), but salvaged by interesting characters. Weir hasn't quite got the hang of a bang-up ending, and she's surely not one to turn to for a delicious turn- of-phrase. Overall: fairly standard stuff. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Edition details

• Publisher: Worldwide Library
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0373261721
• ISBN 13: 9780373261727
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 251