While taking part in a pageant reenacting the history of her New England hometown, Taconic Hills, Sarah Hoving experiences strange sensations when a series of mysterious events begins to mirror events that took place centuries before.
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From Publishers Weekly
Beekeeper Sara Hoving's past comes to haunt her in this compelling and solidly written suspense novel. When her mother-in-law persuades a reluctant Sara to take the lead role in a pageant commemorating the bicentennial of their hometown, Taconic Hills ("a tiny hamlet halfway between the Hudson River and New England"), a series of bizarre mishaps ensues, culminating in a murder and a fire that nearly destroys the Hovings' farmhouse. Struggling to make some sense of these disasters, terrified by how closely they parallel certain oddly similar events of 200 years earlier, Sara must come to grips for the first time with the key fact of her personal history: her mother's mysterious abandonment of her when she was only four. As she finds herself inextricably drawn into the puzzling tangle the bicentennial celebration has become, long-buried memories of the day her mother disappeared begin to surface. She suspects that her father, Roy Stanton, her mother-in-law, Ruth Hoving, and the other prominent members of their small community possess secrets that will bring her closer to the truth. Cleverly intertwining all the plot threads, Wallace ( A Single Stone ) makes connections for Sara--and for the reader as well--that provide a satisfying and entirely credible resolution.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
The cozy, inbred New York hamlet of Taconic Hills, celebrating its bicentennial by staging a pageant of its early history, is beset by a series of disturbingly literal echoes of that history: its spiritual leader dead of exposure after getting lost in a snowstorm; the unexplained spoiling of a vat of milk; a dog dead of a mysterious three-point wound; a cannon's fatal explosion. Sara Hoving, slated to play the part of drowned Emily Schiller, feels trapped not only in her heroine's destiny but in her own traumatic childhood as she finally confronts her closemouthed father, her husband Peter's family, and the town council about her mother's abrupt abandonment of her as a child. The time that Wallace takes over Sara's painful discovery of the truth--eight fictional months--allows her a texture and spaciousness rare in mystery fiction; the result is not to be missed. Readers who've been comparing Wallace (A Single Stone, etc.) to Mary Higgins Clark will have to find a more resonant model for this likely Edgar contender. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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