“Watch Her” (A Hester Thursby Mystery #3)
Edwin Hill, Dec. 29, 2020, Kensington Books, Mystery
Hardcover, 978-1-4967-2676-6, $26.00 ($28.95 CAN)
Edwin Hill, Dec. 29, 2020, Kensington Books, Mystery
Hardcover, 978-1-4967-2676-6, $26.00 ($28.95 CAN)
Author bio: Edwin
Hill is the author of the critically acclaimed Hester Thursby mystery
series, the first of which, “Little Comfort,” was an Agatha Award
finalist, a selection of the Mysterious Press First Mystery Club, and a
Publishers Marketplace Buzz Books selection. The second installment,
“The Missing Ones,” was also an Agatha Award finalist and a Sue Grafton
Memorial Award nominee. Formerly the vice president and editorial
director for Bedford/St. Martin's (Macmillan), he now teaches at Emerson
College and has written for the L.A. Review of Books, The Life
Sentence, Publishers Weekly, and Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. He lives
in Roslindale, Massachusetts with his partner Michael and their
Labrador, Edith Ann.
Book synopsis: In
the third intelligently dark suspense novel by Edgar and Agatha
finalist Edwin Hill, Harvard librarian Hester Thursby becomes enmeshed
with a powerful Boston family desperate to keep their deepest secrets
from coming to light…
While attending a gala at Prescott University's lavish new campus, Hester Thursby and fellow guest, Detective Angela White, are called to the home of the college's owners, Tucker and Jennifer Matson. Jennifer claims that someone broke into Pinebank, their secluded mansion on the banks of Jamaica Pond. The more Hester and Angela investigate, the less they believe Jennifer's story, leaving Hester to wonder why she would lie.
When Hester is asked by the college's general manager to locate some missing alumni, she employs her research skills on the family and their for-profit university. Between financial transgressions, a long-ago tragedy, and rumors of infidelity, it's clear that the Matsons aren't immune to scandal or mishap. But when one of the missing students turns up dead, the mystery takes on new urgency. Hester is edging closer to the truth, but as a decades-old secret collides with new lies, a killer grows more determined to keep the past buried with the dead...
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