Dead Spider (17) (A Loon Lake Mystery)
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In the next installment of the Loon Lake Mystery series Lewellyn Ferris and Doc Osborne must solve a murder that shatters the picturesque Wisconsin lake town community at the height of summer. On a lovely Sunday afternoon in late June the annual Loon Lake Youth Fishing Tournament is coming to a close. People are happy kids are full of ice cream and teenagers are setting off firecrackers so loud that no one hears the gunshot. But when the crowd thins out an attractive young wife makes a grisly discovery: A single bullet to the head has killed her much older husbandthe richest man in Wisconsin. Meanwhile as the murder investigation gets underway Police Chief Lewellyn Ferriss good friend and deputy coroner Doc Osborne is alarmed to hear that his oldest grandchild fifteen-year-old Beth has been caught in a drug sting. And Loon Lakes idyllic summer is further shattered when numerous elderly patients in the local nursing home discover they have been robbed. Victoria Houstons love for her Wisconsin settingand her wonderful charactersis evident on every page of her fine series (New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman).
