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No Mortal Reason

by Kathy Lynn Emerson

Series: Diana Spaulding (3)

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In her thirty-third published novel, the third mystery in this critically acclaimed series featuring "girl-reporter" Diana Spaulding, Kathy Lynn Emerson explores her own roots in rural New York with the aid of her grandfather's diaries. 1888 -- When Diana and her fiancée Dr Ben Northcote journey to Sullivan Country, New York, they discover Diana's long-lost relative embroiled in a speculator's crazy scheme to turn the family hotel into the next Saratoga Springs. Then an excavation figs up a skeleton, and Diana must exercise her reporter's nose to clear her Uncle Howd of a ten-year old murder, enhanced by a cast of colourful humans and an aggressive nanny goat.… (more)
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The prolific writer Kathy Lynn Emerson has published the third book in her Diana Spaulding mystery series. In a series begun in Deadlier than the Pen and continued in Fatal as a Fallen Woman Emerson tells the story of Diana Spaulding and her life in 1888.

No Mortal Reason finds Diana and her fiancé Dr. Ben Northcote on their way to Maine to be married. But on the way they stop in New York, in the town that is home to Diana's relatives, her mother's hometown. Due to a family dispute many years before, the relatives are not even aware of Diana's existence. Diana comes to visit the family run inn in hopes of a family reconciliation before her wedding. But when Ben introduces them as husband and wife, resulting in only one room for both of them, it complicates Diana's visit considerably. The addition of a dead body found during the inn renovations, grandiose schemes by her uncles to attract customers and some suspicious guests raise Diana's reporter instincts while lowering her chances for a happy family reunion.

The fascinating part of Emerson's series is that, as with most of her writing, they are based in history. The book is pure fiction but her extensive research into the place and time of her novel give it its feeling of reality and truth. Characters are often based on real people, settings are detailed and thoroughly researched. So even as the characters wind their way throughout their adventures the reader feels like they are getting a picture of our ancestors, our own history. She is able to transport the reader into the lifestyle, mores and actions of America in the 1880s. Her family research adds great depth to her setting and characters.

The series has a planned culmination in book four, Lethal Legend.

For a wide variety of historical background it is strongly recommended that readers check out Ms Emerson's web site.
  FrontStreet | Mar 29, 2008 |
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In her thirty-third published novel, the third mystery in this critically acclaimed series featuring "girl-reporter" Diana Spaulding, Kathy Lynn Emerson explores her own roots in rural New York with the aid of her grandfather's diaries. 1888 -- When Diana and her fiancée Dr Ben Northcote journey to Sullivan Country, New York, they discover Diana's long-lost relative embroiled in a speculator's crazy scheme to turn the family hotel into the next Saratoga Springs. Then an excavation figs up a skeleton, and Diana must exercise her reporter's nose to clear her Uncle Howd of a ten-year old murder, enhanced by a cast of colourful humans and an aggressive nanny goat.

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