The Silver Scapel: A Devon MacDonald Mystery - Hardcover

Jacobs, Nancy Baker

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 039913834X ISBN 13: 9780399138348

Publisher: Putnam Adult, 1993

Synopsis

In her latest case, Twin Cities P.I. Devon McDonald investigates the disappearance of pregnant teenagers from a small fundamentalist town and the possible link to an anti-abortion group. By the author of A Slash of Scarlet.

About this title

About the Author:

Nancy Baker Jacobs is the award-winning author of 13 crime novels, including the Devon MacDonald private eye series; FLASH POINT (featuring arson investigator Susan Delancey) and STAR STRUCK (introducing "Hollywood Star" reporter Quinn Collins), both first installments in new mystery series, STAR SEARCH (a Quinn Collins novella); and seven suspense novels. Her latest suspense offering, RICOCHET, was chosen by the Mystery Writers of America as a finalist for the Mary Higgins Clark Award.
As Nancy C. Baker, she's also written six nonfiction books on subjects ranging from black market adoption to breast cancer.
Nancy Baker Jacobs has worked as a private detective, a university professor and administrator, and a journalist. She lives on California's Monterey Peninsula.

From Publishers Weekly:

In a gripping feminist mystery that's sure to raise a few hackles, Jacobs ( A Slash of Scarlet ) pits series sleuth Devon MacDonald against a posse of right-wing vigilantes. After two women die in the firebombing of a Minnesota medical center where abortions are performed, PI MacDonald is hired by Monica Hammond to find her 16-year-old sister, Kerry, who has vanished. The sisters' puritanical parents believe Kerry has gone to church camp, but Monica says Kerry had spoken of "a friend" who wanted to end a pregnancy. In Kerry's ultra-conservative hometown, MacDonald encounters a large right-to-life contingent led by a hypocritical, money-grubbing minister and is soon assaulted (with the blade of the title) by two rabidly "pro-life" men. While some readers may reject Jacobs' damning portrayals of religious zealots and anti-abortion tactics, her depictions of such events as a right-to-life meeting and a blockade of a women's clinic are even-handed. With a savvy heroine, unremitting action and a final twist of the plot, Jacobs adroitly constructs her mystery around a smoldering topic.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Putnam Adult
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 039913834X
• ISBN 13: 9780399138348
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 223