MacPherson's Lament
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GoryDetails
of Nashua, New Hampshire USA on 11/20/2006
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
GoryDetails of Nashua, New Hampshire USA on 11/20/2006 This Book is Currently in the Wild!
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One of McCrumb's "Elizabeth MacPherson" series, to which I got addicted after stumbling across The PMS Outlaws; I've been dashing around looking for the rest of the books, and found this one at Barnes and Noble.
Later: This book picks up with Elizabeth and Cameron in Scotland - though not together, as he's off on the high seas doing his research on seagoing mammals, and she's in Edinburgh trying to do some forensic anthropology work of her own. Her letter to her brother Bill describes all this and congratulates Bill on his new law firm, which leads us to - Bill and his partner A. P. Hill (a young woman who's related to - and named after - a famous Civil War figure; she gets very tired of having people mention this to her, but she spends her spare time participating in Civil War reanactments), who are the main characters in the book. When eight elderly ladies, daughters of Confederate veterans, ask them to sell their antebellum mansion, they figure that a job is a job - but it turns out that the affairs of the ladies (and the house) are more tangled than expected. And then the ladies all disappear...
The story includes flashbacks, from the viewpoint of a Civil War soldier in the 1860s; these are intercut with third-person accounts of Bill and A. P., and then - more than halfway through the book - Elizabeth turns up to help Bill out of his deepening problems, and her parts of the story are in first-person. Might sound like a confusing mix, but it works.
There's a running gag about a stuffed groundhog in lawyer's robes ("Flea Bailey") with whom Bill is inexplicably loathe to part; and cousin Geoffrey makes an unexpected but welcome appearance, just when I'd feared that he wasn't going to be in this book at all. Oh, and some crimes get solved {grin}.
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The series, in order:
Sick of Shadows
Lovely in Her Bones
Highland Laddie Gone
Paying the Piper
The Windsor Knot
Missing Susan
MacPherson's Lament
If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him
PMS Outlaws
Later: This book picks up with Elizabeth and Cameron in Scotland - though not together, as he's off on the high seas doing his research on seagoing mammals, and she's in Edinburgh trying to do some forensic anthropology work of her own. Her letter to her brother Bill describes all this and congratulates Bill on his new law firm, which leads us to - Bill and his partner A. P. Hill (a young woman who's related to - and named after - a famous Civil War figure; she gets very tired of having people mention this to her, but she spends her spare time participating in Civil War reanactments), who are the main characters in the book. When eight elderly ladies, daughters of Confederate veterans, ask them to sell their antebellum mansion, they figure that a job is a job - but it turns out that the affairs of the ladies (and the house) are more tangled than expected. And then the ladies all disappear...
The story includes flashbacks, from the viewpoint of a Civil War soldier in the 1860s; these are intercut with third-person accounts of Bill and A. P., and then - more than halfway through the book - Elizabeth turns up to help Bill out of his deepening problems, and her parts of the story are in first-person. Might sound like a confusing mix, but it works.
There's a running gag about a stuffed groundhog in lawyer's robes ("Flea Bailey") with whom Bill is inexplicably loathe to part; and cousin Geoffrey makes an unexpected but welcome appearance, just when I'd feared that he wasn't going to be in this book at all. Oh, and some crimes get solved {grin}.
***
The series, in order:
Sick of Shadows
Lovely in Her Bones
Highland Laddie Gone
Paying the Piper
The Windsor Knot
Missing Susan
MacPherson's Lament
If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him
PMS Outlaws
Journal Entry 2 by GoryDetails at Post Office Bookswap Shelf (UBCZ), 353 Middlesex Rd. in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts USA on Wednesday, February 12, 2014
GoryDetails at Post Office Bookswap Shelf (UBCZ), 353 Middlesex Rd. in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts USA on Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Released 10 yrs ago (2/12/2014 UTC) at Post Office Bookswap Shelf (UBCZ), 353 Middlesex Rd. in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
I plan to leave this book on the book-swap shelf in the post office lobby at around 1:30 or so; hope the finder enjoys it!
