Dead spider
Subtitle: a novel
By: Victoria Houston
Edition: First Gallery Books hardcover edition. First Gallery trade paperback edition.
Series: Loon Lake mystery series
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9781507204566; 9781440598807
Subjects: Robbery investigation; Murder; Investigation; Lewellyn Ferris (Fictitious character); Doc Osbourne (Fictitious character); Fiction; Policewomen
Description: "A lovely Sunday afternoon in late June and the annual Loon Lake Youth Fishing Tournament is coming to a close. People are happy, kids full of ice cream and teenagers setting off firecrackers so loud no one hears the gunshot. But when the crowd thins out an attractive young wife makes a grisly discovery: A single bullet to the brain has killed her much-older husband -- the richest man in Wisconsin. Just as Loon Lake Police Chief Lewellyn Ferris gets the murder investigation underway, her good friend and deputy coroner, "Doc" Osborne, is alarmed to hear his oldest grandchild, fifteen-year-old Beth, has been caught in a drug sting. And Loon Lake's idyllic summer is further shattered when numerous elderly patients in Loon Lake's nursing home discover they have been robbed"--