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In the second "Yooperwoman" book, Baby Boomer Molly Meagher (that's
MaHAR, not Meeger, thank you ) juggles another family medical
crisis, being pursued and attacked by villains who want something
she has (and she has no idea what it is they're after), having her
house burned to the ground, and her evolving relationship with FBI
Agent Nate Walker. From her unscheduled swim with a corpse in Lake
Superior to seeing her home destroyed, Molly uses her wit and
experience to help tie it all together and solve another thrilling
murder mystery in the sleepy Upper Peninsula.
Welcome to HEX HIGH SCHOOL Here students ask themselves: "When will
the murders stop?" In Why Begins With W, the first book in The Time
Capsule Murders trilogy, a Freshman, trying to solve the mystery of
the hidden evil in the school, invited you on a journey into fear
itself. In Dial Emma For Murder, the sequel, the journey took you
beyond fear and into the reality of terror. Now, to solve the
mystery, you must finally follow this Freshman down the hall and
into the very heart of a pitiless wasteland known as HEX HIGH
SCHOOL
If you've had enough of characters who are young, slim, and
beautiful, then Molly Meagher (that's Ma-HAR, not Meeger) will make
you smile. She's short, plump and senior, and trouble homes in on
her like a heat-seeking missile. A "recovering" lawyer, wanna-be
Yooper, EMT, and general smart aleck, Molly attracts villains like
honey attracts flies. Fortunately, she has friends - also senior
citizens both male and female -- who have her back, and her sort-of
squeeze, retired FBI agent turned security consultant, to rub it
for her. What with dodging assassins, planning for a knitting shop,
caring for a dying sister, driving an ambulance, and doing the
occasional court-appointed lawyering, Molly doesn't have time to
think about the fact that she's closer to seventy than to sixty, or
that she really ought to get rid of the doughnuts and cheesecake
from years ago she's still carrying around her waist. Her
indomitable spirit and wisecracking approach to life help her cope
with a life that is anything but boring. Join Molly and the
denizens of Michigan's Upper Peninsula as she juggles drama,
adventure, nightmares, and grief, and like a Timex, keeps on
ticking.
Rupert Brown's pets, a pair of guinea pigs, a turtle, and a
cockatiel, have started talking to him again, a sure sign that Miss
Switch, a bona fide, no-fooling, real witch, is back again as
Pepperdine Elementary School's enormously popular sixth-grade
teacher This can only spell one thing: the wicked Saturna has never
forgiven Rupert for blowing up her judgmental Computowitch to save
Miss Switch from its idiotic verdict. So back she is, this time
contriving a plot that employs villains so vile they can only be
imagined between the covers of actual books. With no Computowitch
to help her, will Saturna devise a way to make sure that Rupert and
his unlucky classmates meet the same terrible ends as these vile
villains?
SECOND EDITION2. Corrected formatting and other issues: Molly
Meagher (that's MaHAR, not MEEger, thank you ) is a sixtyish
"recovering lawyer" with a sense of adventure and a smart mouth. A
little bit of Kinsey Millhone, a touch of Miss Marple and a LOT of
Stephanie Plum, Molly has retreated to the North Woods of
Michigan's Upper Peninsula to recover from a near-fatal attack by a
client's angry ex-husband, where the peace and quiet and simple
life helps her heal. Until she gets shot at, firebombed and
pestered by a real estate salesman trying to buy her out. Her life
is further complicated by a hunky FBI agent who looks at her as a
prime suspect, as well as the surprise arrival of a sister she
hasn't seen in decades, who begs to live with Molly while she dies
of cancer and searches for the son she lost to social services.
Molly wisecracks and knits her way through the investigation, being
attacked, her growing attraction to the FBI guy, and dealing with
her sister, as well as her issues about being gray-haired and what
she prefers to call "plump," and her fear of intimacy. And learns
that knitting needles make deadly weapons. Anyone who thinks that
romance, adventure and angst are NOT reserved for young, slim
beauties will enjoy this book.
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