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Rosalie Cairns #2
Grave Deeds
Growing up, Rosie had never known any of her father’s family. Why had she been chosen to inherit her grandfather’s summer home, and its valuable northern waterfront land?A simple reunion with her great aunt and her cousin leads to an unexpected and chilling legacy. Failed by family and friends alike, Rosie and Will are left to solve the puzzles of Grave Deeds .
180 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 1, 1993
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Betsy Struthers
16 books1 followerBetsy Struthers (born 1951) is a Canadian poet and novelist. Born in Toronto, Struthers has lived in Peterborough, Ontario since 1977. She was co-editor (with Sarah Klassen) and contributor to Poets in the Classroom, an anthology of essays about teaching poetry workshops written by members of the League of Canadian Poets. She was president of the League from 1995 to 1997 and has served as chair of its Education Committee and Feminist Caucus. She works as a freelance editor of academic non-fiction texts. Her book Still won the 2004 Pat Lowther Award for the best book of poetry by a Canadian woman. Struthers's poetry has been praised for its narrative clarity, distinctive voice, and erotic play of language.
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February 4, 2017
Although the body count gets unrealistically high by the end I still liked this early 90's crime fiction which had a good spooky ambiance especially in the cottage/camp atmosphere in the latter half. The criminals telegraph their suspicious actions to the reader in such a way that the reader feels smarter than the protagonists Rosalie and Will who have yet to figure out what is going on. I always find that to be clever writing which is designed to flatter the reader in an indirect manner.
The Rosalie Cairns trilogy was a temporary sideline for poet Betsy Struthers in the early-mid 1990's. It follows the crime solving adventures of a bookstore clerk, student and later academic so it is definitely more in the cozy world than the hard-boiled noir world of crime. I hope to track down the others.
The Rosalie Cairns trilogy was a temporary sideline for poet Betsy Struthers in the early-mid 1990's. It follows the crime solving adventures of a bookstore clerk, student and later academic so it is definitely more in the cozy world than the hard-boiled noir world of crime. I hope to track down the others.
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