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    Tradition of Deceit

    By Kathleen Ernst

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    Book 5 in the award-winning historical Chloe Ellefson Mystery series

    Curator and occasional sleuth Chloe Ellefson is off to Minneapolis to help her friend Ariel with a monumental task. Ariel must write a proposal for a controversial and expensive restoration project: convert an abandoned flour mill, currently used as shelter by homeless people, into a museum. When a dead body is found stuffed into a grain chute, Chloe's attention turns from milling to murder.

    Back in Milwaukee, Chloe's love interest Roelke has been slammed with the news that a fellow officer was shot and killed while on duty. Sifting through clues from both past and present, Chloe and Roelke discover dangerous secrets that put their lives—and their trust in each other—at risk.

    Praise:

    "Ernst keeps getting better with each entry in this fascinating series."—Library Journal

    "Everybody has secrets in this action-filled cozy."—Publishers Weekly

    "All in all, a very enjoyable reading experience."—Mystery Scene

    "A page-turner with a clever surprise ending."—G.M. Malliet, Agatha Award-winning author of The St. Just and Max Tudor Mystery Series

    "[A] haunting tale of two murders...This is more than a mystery. It is a plush journey into cultural time and place."—Jill Florence Lackey, PhD, author of Milwaukee's Old South Side and American Ethnic Practices in the Twenty-First Century

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLlewellyn Worldwide
    Release dateOct 8, 2014
    ISBN9780738741024
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    Kathleen Ernst

    Kathleen Ernst is a bestselling novelist, historian, and educator who writes for adults and kids. Her books for young readers include fifteen novels for American Girl. She created Caroline Abbott, the company’s newest historical character, and has written seven books about her. Ernst also writes the Chloe Ellefson Mysteries for adults and mature teens. Honors for her work include Edgar and Agatha Award nominations and an Emmy Award in children’s programming. Visit her at www.kathleenernst.com.

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    • 5/5
      Another fantastic read in what I feel is a flying below the radar series. After attending a friend's wedding with boyfriend/cop Roelke McKenna in Milwaukee, Chloe heads to Minnesota and an old friend with an interesting historical plan. The old Washburn Mill, next to the Mississippi River, is being considered for a renovation to be a new historical site and museum. Chloe's friend Ariel is part of the team advocating the Mill's future. The story of the mill, told through both present day Ariel and the eyes of some early Polish, female immigrants, one of whom worked there in the early days, is fascinating. After a body is found at the Mill, Chloe finds herself mixed up in yet another murder investigation. Meanwhile, Roelke has taken a leave from the Eagle Police Department to hang around his former precinct in Milwaukee and help look into the death of a friend. It's truly Ernst's attention to historical detail that make this very traditional mystery series different than others.

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    • 4/5
      It took me a while to get into this one, but about halfway through I started really, really appreciating it. I liked how the author linked the three stories--Roelke's, Chloe's, and the historical one--through language and theme. Roelke's story seemed to take the most space, and it was a police procedural. Chloe's story felt a bit more like an afterthought. I found this historical story to be the most engaging of those in the mysteries. My big problems with the book are that I don't like Roelke much, and I don't find his and Chloe's relationship that interesting. I liked it better in book 4...maybe because they were working together much more in that one. I think there are a few anachronisms in the book, too, or expressions characters used that didn't ring true to the early 1980s.