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Frank Bennett, the taciturn police chief of the remote village of Trout Run, New York, returns in the second installment of S.W. Hubbard's compelling mystery series. The sudden death of sweet, dowdy Mary Pat Sheehan creates havoc in the small Adirondack mountain town of Trout Run, where secrets are hard to keep. People are stunned to learn that Mary Pat died from childbirth complications, since no one knew she was pregnant. Police Chief Frank Bennett soon discovers Mary Pat was involved with show more a black market adoption organization ... but who is the father? And where is her baby? show less

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Police Chief Frank Bennett of Trout Run investigates when Mary Pat Sheehan dies from complications of childbirth, complicated by the fact that no-one in town knew she was pregnant. That is when he discovers a black market adoption business in the area.
An enjoyable well-written mystery

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Canonical title
The Lure
Original title
Swallow the Hook
Alternate titles
The Lure
Original publication date
2004
People/Characters
Frank Bennett
Important places
Trout Lake, New York, USA; Adirondack Mountains
First words
The door of the Stop'N'Buy wouldn't budge.

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Fiction and Literature, Mystery
DDC/MDS
813Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English
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PS3558Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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