The Bug Funeral: A Professor Simon Shaw Mystery - Hardcover

Sarah R. Shaber

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786267119 ISBN 13: 9780786267118

Publisher: Thorndike Press, 2004

Synopsis

Professor Simon Shaw never set out to be a detective. But when he's consulted about an eighty-year-old murder, it spawned an intriguing sideline to teaching American history to a classroom peppered with wooden-eared college students. Now Simon is known as "the forensic historian" and offered mysteries from long ago. Yet Helen Williams - or rather, her problem - is unlike any of the puzzles Simon has faced.

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About this title

About the Author:

Sarah R. Shaber lives in North Carolina with her husband and two children. Her novel Simon Said won the St Martin's Malice Domestic Award. For more information visit her website at www.sarahshaber.com

From Publishers Weekly:

In Shaber's fourth intriguing Simon Shaw whodunit (after 2003's The Fugitive King), the mild-mannered professor at Kenan College in Raleigh, N.C., has earned a reputation as a "forensic historian," that is, an expert in solving long-ago crimes. When a friend's goddaughter, Helen Williams, tells him that she may be the reincarnation of a woman who murdered her child a century earlier, Simon is ready to dismiss Helen's claim as nonsense. A cursory inquiry reveals nothing, and he thinks he's off the hook. After a curious incident changes his mind, Simon becomes engrossed in a methodical and thorough investigation that not only will put him and Helen in danger but also will heat up a cold case to the boiling point. The reincarnation debate between believers and skeptics, epitomized in epigraphs that head each chapter, adds to the suspense. Credible characters, smooth and natural dialogue, charming descriptions of Raleigh at Christmastime and a creative solution to the mystery all lift this well above the cozy average.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0786267119
• ISBN 13: 9780786267118
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304