Family Business (Port Silva Mysteries, No. 9) - Softcover

Janet LaPierre

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1880284855 ISBN 13: 9781880284858

Publisher: Daniel & Daniel Publishers, 2015

Synopsis

Private investigators Patience and Verity Mackellar are hired to research the background of a dead antiwar protester but find that he has none. Their efforts, however, uncover old secrets, cover-ups, and crimes lurking in the past.

About this title

About the Author:

Janet LaPierre is a five-time nominee for the Shamus, the Macavity, and the Anthony. Her eight previous Port Silva novels have garnered critics? raves, writers? respect, and readers? love. She lives in Berkeley with her husband.

From Publishers Weekly:

Set in 2002, LaPierre's crisply plotted ninth Port Silva mystery features mother-daughter sleuths Patience and Verity Mackellar (after2004's Death Duties), who once again must deal with violence in the picturesque Northern California coastal town. A rally against the march to war in Iraq turns ugly when several protesters struggling with police tumble off a cliff into the ocean. Among the casualties is Daniel Soto, a worker Verity has hired to help remodel her new home. Though Daniel is missing, he's presumed dead. But Soto's grief-stricken girlfriend, Grace Beaubien, refuses to accept his death and hires the Mackellars to find him—and to uncover the past he had never disclosed to her. Lending support are Verity's hunky boyfriend, Det. Johnny Hebert, and her engaging soon-to-be-adopted daughter, nine-year-old Sylvie. Blending contemporary issues and family conflicts with a solid mystery plot, the author reaffirms her fluid mastery of the cozy. (Sept.)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Daniel & Daniel Publishers
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1880284855
• ISBN 13: 9781880284858
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100