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    A Dismal Thing to Do

    By Charlotte MacLeod

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    After witnessing a strange explosion, Janet becomes a murderer's next target.

    Janet Rhys is driving through the backwoods of Canada when she sees the truck ahead of her lose control, smash into a snow bank, and flip sideways, completely blocking the road. Springing to action, she darts into a nearby barn, searching for something to use to rescue the person trapped inside. When she hears an explosion, Janet returns to find the truck is nothing but smoking wreckage, and the driver has stolen her car.

    Janet takes shelter in an abandoned house, and is waiting for help to come when the truck driver's accomplices set fire to her hideout. Just before she is engulfed in flames, she leaps through a window and escapes into the snow. The killers think their witness is dead, and if Janet doesn't move quickly, they will be right.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHead of Zeus
    Release dateJun 1, 2014
    ISBN9781784086954
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    Charlotte MacLeod

    Charlotte MacLeod (1922–2005) was an international bestselling author of cozy mysteries. Born in Canada, she moved to Boston as a child and lived in New England most of her life. After graduating from college, she made a career in advertising, writing copy for the Stop & Shop Supermarket Company before moving on to Boston firm N. H. Miller & Co., where she rose to the rank of vice president. In her spare time, MacLeod wrote short stories, and in 1964 published her first novel, a children’s book called Mystery of the White Knight. In Rest You Merry (1978), MacLeod introduced Professor Peter Shandy, a horticulturist and amateur sleuth whose adventures she would chronicle for two decades. The Family Vault (1979) marked the first appearance of her other best-known characters: the husband and wife sleuthing team Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn, whom she followed until her last novel, The Balloon Man, in 1998.

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    • 3/5
      Not much mystery, but lots of coincidences. Janet, husband of Detective Inspector Madoc Rhys of the RCMP, just happens to be a witness to a crime and just happens to recognize the accent of someone who lived near her hometown. Otherwise a national security secret would never have been discovered and resolved. Uh, it wasn't so bad that I didn't finish it.
    • 4/5
      Mildly amusing. The luck just ran against the bad guys - it took some work to put it all together, but the first threads that got the whole thing unraveled were a matter of pure luck. A few characters a bit over the top (the hardware store owner, for one) but not the major characters. And at least two unrelated conspiracies going on simultaneously. This time I caught the descriptions of the stuff in Badger's house - remembered it was important from the last time I read it. Fun, no depth to it but well-written and amusing. And the general populace of characters were a lot more pleasant to know than the ones in Murder Goes Mumming.