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Loading... The Cemetery Yew (2004)by Cynthia Riggs
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Much improved, The best yet. ( ) 92-year-old Victoria Trumbull is back to detecting again when there is a request to disinter a coffin in a plot belonging to a non-resident island family. Victoria doesn't remember there being a burial ten years before of an alleged suicide. Meanwhile there's a fire that re-erupts at the dump. People turn up missing and dead. It's up to Victoria and Casey, the police chief, to sort through the motives and suspects before another person turns up dead. The solution was fairly obvious all along. The red herrings didn't really fool me. I find Victoria an unlikely sleuth, and the unbelievability factor is huge for this series. Still, it was a nice light read for fall break. no reviews | add a review
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HTML: There's more than one reason the new West Tisbury police chief officially made ninety-two-year-old Victoria Trumbull her deputy. For one thing, Victoria knows just about everything about everyone in Martha's Vineyard, not to mention their ancestors. Victoria may be afflicted with the usual aches and pains that descend on nonagenariansâ??she has a cutoff shoe to accommodate her bunion and a stout stick to help her on her walks across the fields and in the woodsâ??but she is as sharp and as sharp-eyed as the proverbial tack. So it's not odd that when Victoria is the only one who notices something amiss among the gravestones of the West Tisbury cemetery, the chief listens. And something is indeed amiss. Responding to a request by presumed relatives in the Midwest to disinter a coffin for reburying elsewhere, things go wrong from the start. The driver of the hearse coming to collect the coffin disappears during the Island ferry trip in a rainstorm. Other deathsâ??some of them irrefutably murder, the others suspiciousâ??follow. And when, as a last measure, the coffin is found, dug up, and opened, it does not contain the expected body. Adding insult to injury, the coffin itself disappears. Meanwhile, the bedroom for rent in Victoria's house has been taken over by a woman and her raucous toucan, a bird as spoiled as the most bratty millionaire's heir. Victoria is graceful about her unwanted boarders, but they do interfere with her newspaper columnâ??and with her efforts to discover whether the strange antics of the coffin are related to the murders. Victoria is the most realistic and most delightful nonagenarian in mystery fiction. Her years have not blunted her intelligence nor her No library descriptions found. |
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