Looks like open season on cheating husbands in Danville, Virginia.
Brightly remorseless Eleanor Royden has just emptied a revolver
into the man who ditched her for a bimbo named Staci - don't worry,
she saved a bullet for Staci, too - and Donna Jean Morgan's
husband, the Rev. Cherry Morgan, has died of arsenic poisoning
shortly after announcing his polygamous marriage to his own bimbo.
When Donna Jean tells her lawyer, Bill MacPherson, that she's a
descendant of Lethal Lucy Todhunter - the local celebrity whose
husband also died of arsenic poisoning soon after returning from
the Civil War - Bill wants his sister Elizabeth (MacPherson's
Lament, 1992, etc.) to reopen the Todhunter case and figure out
just how Lucy did it. But can Elizabeth rouse herself from her
concerns with her divorced mother's current lesbian fling and her
own cheerful denial of marital loss - she's still writing letters
to the husband who'll never return - and can Bill get justice for
Miri Malone, the animal-rights activist who wants to marry a
dolphin? Elizabeth's eighth outing has it all - a gaggle of tidy
mysteries, nonstop laughs, bumper-sticker wisdom about the male
animal, and some other, sadder kinds of wisdom, too. Quite a
banquet - if you don't mind all that arsenic. (Kirkus Reviews)
When forensic anthropologist Elizabeth MacPherson becomes the official P.I. for her brother Bill's fledgling Virginia law firm, she quickly takes on two complex cases. Eleanor Royden, a perfect lawyer's wife for twenty years, has shot her ex-husband and his wife in cold blood. And Donna Jean Morgan is implicated in the death of her Bible-thumping bigamist husband.
Bill's feminist firebrand partner, A. P. Hill, does her damnedest for Eleanor, an abused wife in denial, and Bill gallantly defends Donna Jean. Meanwhile, Elizabeth's forensic expertise, including her special knowledge of poisons, gives her the most challenging case of her career. . . .
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