Meadowlark [Hardcover]

Sheila Simonson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1996

Assisting at a weeklong workshop for journalists at an experimental organic farm, Lark Dodge and her ex-police detective husband turn sleuth when one of the farm managers ends up dead and it becomes clear that one of the mismatched farm residents is a killer.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Opening Larkspur Books after relocating from California to the quaint coastal Washington town of Kayport, Lark Dodge, seen last in Mudlark, is pressed by Bianca Fiedler into helping to run a writers' conference on environmental issues at organic Meadowlark Farm. When Hugo Groth, one of the farm's managers, rents an apartment above the bookstore, Lark begins to get a better picture of the eclectic folk who run, and work at, the farm. She learns that the group is an outgrowth of a commune that Bianca, Bianca's husband and Hugo lived on years before. And she starts to sense the discord at Meadowlark. Hugo, says one Meadowlarker, "is a prick." "He's a fanatic," says another. "The interns all hate his guts." Then, 10 days before the conference, Hugo goes missing-later to be found dead in the icehouse. Rather than abandon the seminar, Bianca, believing that Hugo's murder has "nothing to do with my staff," decides that it will go on as planned. Lark disagrees and sets out to prove her theory. Six-foot Lark and her cop-turned-teacher husband, Jay, make an adept team as Simonson gracefully exposes the base passions that can animate even the most sensitive environmental do-gooders.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 232 pages
• Publisher: St Martins Pr; 1st edition (February 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312140134
• ISBN-13: 978-0312140137
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.8 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #688,099 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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