The Ransom for Ruth Reed KT McGivens

In the manner of Miss Marple, but younger, and more upper class, journalist Katie Porter bends her crime-solving skills to solving the kidnapping of her best friend, Ruth Reed. Is the kidnapping connected to the strange attacks taking place on women throughout the town? Are the teenage boys of the mysterious Cyrano Club involved? And who are these boys? Or perhaps it’s the long-standing Groundskeeper? Or, as Katie’s fiance suggests, the husband did it – it’s almost always the husband, you know.

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