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Salt Lake City's Mormon community offers furious resistance to Moroni Traveler, a private eye searching for the missing mother of Penny Varney
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Set in Salt Lake City, this is the first mystery in a new series featuring pri vate detective Moroni Traveler Jr. As a non-LDS (Latter Day Saint), Moroni finds it both a blessing and a curse to be named for the angel that graces the top of the temple looming over Brigham Young's city. During a spring blizzard, a distressed young woman named Penny Snow retains Moroni to find her mother, whom she fears is dead. Moroni can't believe his luck when his boyhood friend Willis Tanner also solicits his services on the same day. But there's a catch: Willis is acting for the church and wants Moro ni to keep an eye on Penny, whose fa ther John Varney is on the Mormon Council of Seventy. Moroni is soon on the trail of murderor "blood atone ment" as an LDS would put itand heresy that leads to a violently satisfy ing conclusion. Along the way, there's a wealth of local color and church arca na that will be exotic fare to most "gentiles." Irvine (Ratings Are Mur der, Footsteps, etc.) has a sure hand at interweaving plot and subplot, and a deft feel for characterization. His new protagonist is a likable addition to the long line of tough yet tender gumshoe.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Stated First Edition, First Printing. Blue paper-covered boards with black backstrip and gilt lettering. Hint of sunning to top edge. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front endpaper, dated 10/15/88. Text is otherwise clean and bright, no marks. Unclipped DJ with $15.95 price shows light edgewear, rubbing and minor scuffing. "A golden statue of the Angel Moroni trumpets from atop the Temple in Salt Lake City. Down below, life is not simple for "fallen angel" Moroni Traveler. He has business trouble and girl trouble. and it is snowing. Traveler has been hired by Penny Varney to find her mother who moved away years ago. Six months ago, Penny stopped receiving letters from her mother, and now she is scared that something awful has happened. This should be no problem; Traveler is good at finding people. In this new series the unique world of Mormon Salt Lake City becomes real and vivid and fascinating. Moroni Traveler jumps off the page and into readers' hearts.". Seller Inventory # N71719