Synopsis
Agreeing to escort the teenage niece of his former girlfriend to an overnight soiree, science teacher Will Buchanan is disturbed by the girl's hostility and seeming passion for her brother, a situation that erupts when the brother dies in a suspicious fall. 15,000 first printing.
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Reviews
High school science teacher Will is accused of rape by a student whom he'd befriended, after he witnesses the strange relationship between the student and her brother. In Tom Eslick's Deadly Kin: A Will Buchanan Mystery, sequel to Tracked in the Whites, Will's bail is paid anonymously and his accuser skips town, leading Will on a convoluted and dangerous trail to clear his name.
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As a favor, teacher Will Buchanan escorts Erin Wickham, his girlfriend Laurie's niece, to a lodge in the White Mountains, where Erin will meet her brother. After the brother falls to his death, Erin, a student at Will's school, accuses Will of rape and disappears. No one believes Will is innocent; he searches for Erin to clear his name and uncover the connection between Erin's disappearance and her brother's murder. This third Will Buchanan mystery sets a breakneck pace and never lets it slacken. Eslick combines realistic accounts of hiking and tracking with nonstop action, producing in the process a kind of Raiders of the Lost Ark in the North Woods. The only misstep is the characterization of Laurie, the village police chief and Will's love interest, whose stupidity is equaled only by her meanness. Fans of outdoor mysteries who can concentrate on the action and the autumnal New England scenery will find similarities here to the work of Nevada Barr. John Rowen
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In this sequel to Tracked in the Whites, teacher/sleuth Will Buchanan takes his currently estranged girlfriend's niece, 17-year-old Erin, to a hut in New Hampshire's White Mountains to meet her brother, who is hiking the Appalachian Trail. Brother and sister exchange passionate greetings and more, but only after finding the brother's body the next morning does Will realize that the pair were step-siblings from a dysfunctional family. Erin subsequently turns on Buchanan for some reason, making passes, then accusing him of rape. More bizarre behavior from the family punctuates Buchanan's attempts to establish his own innocence and find the murderer. Down-to-earth prose, beautiful New Hampshire surroundings, and a deceptively simple plot make this a good choice for most collections.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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