Charlotte Hinger, Author . Poisoned Pen $24.95 (250p) ISBN 978-1-59058-645-7
Family secrets both past and present underpin this promising mystery debut from Hinger (Come Spring
). In compiling oral histories for a county book project, western Kansas historian Lottie Albright encounters racist attitudes in a piece by a...
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Charlotte Hinger, Author Simon & Schuster $18.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-55429-3
The plains of Kansas in the 1880s serve as background to this first novel of homesteading life. In a situation reminiscent of Oklahoma!, the homesteaders vie for land with the town-buildersgrit and determination pitted against the wily, avaricious...
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Charlotte Hinger, Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (310p) ISBN 978-1-59058-837-6; $14.95 trade paper ISBN 978-1-59058-839-0
At the start of Hinger's appealing second mystery featuring historian and undersheriff Lottie Albright (after 2009's Deadly Descent), a suffragan bishop delivers a scolding sermon at the first service of the new Episcopal Church, St. Helena, built...
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Charlotte Hinger. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (276p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0076-2
At the start of Hinger’s slow-moving third Lottie Albright mystery (after 2011’s Lethal Lineage), Lottie, the undersheriff of Carlton County, Kans., receives an emergency call around 2:00 a.m. from the local feed yard. A corpse is floating in the...
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Charlotte Hinger. Poisoned Pen, $26.95 (296p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0563-7
The discovery of the body of a college kid and 4-H member in the sculpture-filled Garden of Eden, “the strangest place in all Kansas,” kicks off Hinger’s solid fourth Lottie Albright mystery (after 2013’s Hidden Heritage). The subsequent discovery...
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