The Crows

ISBN: 1594146055

Title: The Crows

Author: Maris Soule

KDL Description:

When P. J. Benson takes a walk in her woods with her Rhodesian Ridgeback puppy, she doesn’t expect to be shot at or to find a man dying in her dining room. It’s early April — tax time — and she has a stack of returns to finish if she wants her home-based accounting business to succeed. She doesn’t have time to be hunting for a mysterious box taken from her neighbor’s pole barn, and she doesn’t have time for the hunky homicide detective assigned to the case. But like it or not, she’s involved with both, and if strange things don’t stop happening, she may end up as crazy as her mother.

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From Kirkus Reviews
“Beware the menace posed by a dying man, a sniper in the woods and killer ladybugs. Accountant P.J. Benson recently inherited her grandfather’s farm in rural Michigan. During tax season, she has no time for outside interests, but when she’s suspected in the murder of a stranger who dies in her dining room, she’s forced to turn sleuth. Her neighbors, missing a box they say contains genetically altered ladybugs whose bite is fatal, beg P.J. to help find it without informing the police. The dead man turns out to be a carpenter who built a laboratory in their barn. His tendency to talk too much when drinking may have cost him his life. As break-ins continue at P.J.’s house, handsome homicide detective Wade Kingsley, who’s attracted to her, wonders if her mother’s schizophrenia runs in the family. P.J. must also deal with her lesbian neighbors, one of whom expected to get part of P.J.’s inherited property. After making a scene at a party, she brings P.J. a stew laced with sleeping pills. Although P.J. and her Rhodesian Ridgeback puppy, Baraka, suffer no ill effects, the cops suspect she dosed herself. Another neighbor, angry with P.J., provides an important clue about the CROWS, an environmental watchdog group whose members may be violent. Veteran romancer Soule skillfully combines suspense, mystery and romance in a fast-moving tale.”