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Windkill
Retired schoolteacher Maude Turner and her widowed brother-in-law Victor Jamison are enjoying a day of kite flying. At least, Maude is; Victor is just along as companion and driver. Since Maude stepped in a gopher hole and broke her ankle, Victor has curtailed his social life to serve as Maude's chauffeur. But chauffeur is all Victor volunteered for, certainly not to serve as Maude's assistant when she insists an accidental death by kite they both witness is actually murder. Her claims dismissed by the police as the raving of a senile old woman, Maude launches her own investigation.
27 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 25, 2014
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D.R. Meredith
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D.R. Meredith, Doris to friends and family, has a split personality--by day, she is a conservatively dressed legal secretary at her husband Mike's law firm. By night she turns into Mrs. Hyde dressed in jeans, flip-flops, and Texas Rangers tee shirt, and commits bloody murder.
She is now in double digits. In her fourth book in the Megan Clark mystery series, the 18th book of her career, D.R. Meredith has just committed her 35th murder.
"I usually average 2 murders a book, because one murder in a closed circle of suspects usually leads to another in the accepted Agatha Christie fashion. In TOME OF DEATH there are two murders, but they occur 150 years apart. I like linking the past and present and exploring the effect our past has on our present. I can't tell how I use the past without giving a broad hint to the killer's identity, but I will say that human beings don't change over time except in dress and customs. My Comanche warrior amateur sleuth isn't all that different in emotional feelings from modern paleopathologist Megan Clark, except Megan isn't into scalping."
D.R. Meredith, Doris to friends and family, has a split personality--by day, she is a conservatively dressed legal secretary at her husband Mike's law firm. By night she turns into Mrs. Hyde dressed in jeans, flip-flops, and Texas Rangers tee shirt, and commits bloody murder.
She is now in double digits. In her fourth book in the Megan Clark mystery series, the 18th book of her career, D.R. Meredith has just committed her 35th murder.
"I usually average 2 murders a book, because one murder in a closed circle of suspects usually leads to another in the accepted Agatha Christie fashion. In TOME OF DEATH there are two murders, but they occur 150 years apart. I like linking the past and present and exploring the effect our past has on our present. I can't tell how I use the past without giving a broad hint to the killer's identity, but I will say that human beings don't change over time except in dress and customs. My Comanche warrior amateur sleuth isn't all that different in emotional feelings from modern paleopathologist Megan Clark, except Megan isn't into scalping."
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August 26, 2025
This witty and occasionally laugh-out-loud story is a classic example of cozy mystery. Not only was it a highlight of the first 'Malice Domestic' anthology; it actually compelled me to search for more works penned by this author.
Wholeheartedly recommended to admirers of that sub-genre.
Wholeheartedly recommended to admirers of that sub-genre.
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