Glare Ice: A Claire Watkins Mystery (Claire Watkins Mysteries) - Hardcover

Logue, Mary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802733719 ISBN 13: 9780802733719

Publisher: Walker & Co, 2001

Synopsis

Startled to discover that Buck's seemingly accidental death was actually murder, Claire Watkins suspects that Buck's lover Stephanie Klaus, an abused woman, might be responsible until she finds Stephanie brutally beaten and wandering down the highway, forcing Clair to race against time to catch a killer, while a brutal snowstorm wreaks havoc on the town.

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About the Author

Mary Logue, an award-winning poet, is the author of four crime novels, most recently Blood Country and Dark Coulee, which introduced Claire Watkins. She lives with writer Pete Hautman and toy poodles Rene and Jacques, in the Wisconsin bluff country that is the setting for this series.

From Publishers Weekly

Wisconsin winter weather plays as important a role as any individual in this nicely paced tale of domestic abuse and murder. Police officer Claire Watkins, last seen in Dark Coulee (2000), is still adjusting to life in little Fort St. Antoine when she notices the bruises and stiff gait of a local woman named Stephanie Klaus. Small town or big city, Claire knows the signs of abuse when she sees them. Stephanie, however, won't talk, even when her new boyfriend, Buck, is tied into his car, driven out on the treacherous ice of Lake Pepin and left there to sink and drown. When Stephanie, accompanied by Buck's delightful dog, Snooper, tries to leave town, she is once again beaten; this time, she barely survives. Still she won't identify her attacker. Claire, in between Thanksgiving details involving her daughter, her sister, her boyfriend, Rich a teensy bit tiresome in his devotion and Rich's mother, tracks down Stephanie's creepy parents, ex-husband, brother and a police officer full of attitude. Claire still can't identify the culprit, but Stephanie has some protection in the form of her neighbor Sven Slocum, a retired executive with a generous heart. As a massive snowfall begins to pile up, visibility is practically nil, but Claire at last begins to see things clearly. The finale is not as fully developed as it might be, but a powerful sense of place and good clean writing greatly enhance this somewhat unremarkable plot. In addition, Claire Watkins is an appealing heroine who, in a refreshing break from the standard modern female protagonist, leaves her political agenda at home. Agent, Jane Chelius.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Walker & Co
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0802733719
• ISBN 13: 9780802733719
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256