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Synopsis
Policewoman Kate MacLean is assigned to investigate the death of a high school senior from a strict fundamentalist Christian school, and the deeper she digs into the tight-lipped religious community, the more horrifying the mystery becomes. Reprint. PW.
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From Publishers Weekly
Engaging Seattle detective Kate MacLean, last seen in Final Design, must call on her abundant reserves of shrewdness and sensitivity to uncover the sins of a modern city-on-a-hill. The killer of young Sarah Taft carefully, almost affectionately, laid out the body of the lovely teenage girl in the park where she died. Kate discounts random violence, which is the preferred theory of Sarah's only acquaintances, members of a tightly knit Christian church and school community who frustrate Kate's inquiries: they don't do murder, and that's that. Kate is left with scraps of gossip (e.g., boys who had crushes on Sarah) and fragments of the community's practices and history. Sorely missing her former partner, Sam, who has taken a desk job and attempted a reconciliation with his wife, Kate is desperate enough for clues to pursue a meddling civilian's lead to an informant who is convinced the church runs a harem. A second murder shocks the community, but not into openness and not in time to prevent more horrors. In her affecting portrayal of high intentions betrayed and corrupted, Gilpatrick frames a compelling puzzle that makes great demands on her game sleuth and fully rewards her readers.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Two biblical quotations that provide the title and a religious point of reference preface this police procedural. King County (Washington State) police detective Kate MacLean is stymied by the administrators of a strict Christian school as she tries to investigate the murder of a student. In the meantime, the killer of beautiful, "perfect" Sarah Taft bides his (or her) time. Gilpatrick spends much effort on descriptive detail, psychological motivation, usual subplot sidebars, and everything else that police investigations entail; recommended.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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