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Arriving in the small village of Walden Corners, New York to start a new life, Brooklyn transplant Lili Marino, while transforming gourds into beautiful works of art, gains a sense of belonging, until she stumbles upon the dead body of her newfound friend's husband on the first day of hunting season. Original.
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In gourd artist Bruce's strong debut, the first in her gourd craft mystery series, Brooklynite Lili Marino takes a cottage in Walden Corners, N.Y., in lieu of payment for a writing job she did for a man she never met, Tom Ford, whose foundation has just gone belly-up. She makes instant friends with the town's only black family, Henry "Coach" Johnson (who coaches high school football), wife Nora and son Scooter. When Lili finds Coach dead face down in a pond, the obvious culprit is a hunter, but nothing proves to be obvious. Bigotry, old feuds and football rivalries surface, as Lili picks up on a few smalltown problems like corporate pollution and Tom Ford's rise and fall (and rise?). Plus there's Lili's alcoholic mother, a baseball star brother, a sister she can't connect with and an attractive local guy. Bruce deftly weaves insightful instructions on dealing with grief and loss as well as details of the ancient craft of gourding into the plot. The resolution is as inevitable as it is unexpected.
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"Smoothly crafted mystery."
-- Margaret Maron
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- PublisherBerkley
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0425206610
- ISBN 13 9780425206614
- BindingMass Market Paperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages272
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