num_pages: 227
description: Alexandra Campbell a spunky young widow partnered with Brighamina Poulson an even spunkier rifle-toting grandmother thinks that as they have begun a genealogy business (RootSearch Inc.) it is high time she finds out her family secret. Something went wrong in her family during her adolescence changing her mother from a Chicago North Shore matron into an alcoholic and a doting father into a workaholic. The moment she graduated from High School she was sent to the Sorbonne in Paris with a generous bank account and instructions not to return. It is now fifteen years since she has seen her parents and she intends to lay the ghost that has separated her family for good. However as usual in Alexs unpredictable life things do not go as planned. After an acrimonious fight with her once beloved father she leaves with only a wallet-sized photograph of a woman she knows nothing about. That night Alexs father is killed. Bewildered and grieved that her family can never be whole again she soon finds out that she is the chief suspect in the murder. With the unflappable Briggie at her side she uses all her new genealogical skills and (with the help of Briggies deer rifle) discovers a secret so bizarre that she finally understands why her parents wanted her far away and safe. Join Alex and Briggie in the first of their hair-raising adventures!
language: English
title: Cankered Roots
publisher: Deseret Book Co