In a boldly personal move, Police Chief Wayne Gallant has arranged a meeting between his children and Bellehaven librarian, Helma Zukas. But the long overdue introductions are interrupted - by murder. And when the chief's investigation leads to a nearly fatal fall from a cliff, a potentially incrimi
Miss Zukas and the Island Murders
β Scribed by Dereske, Jo
- Book ID
- 110156042
- Publisher
- Avon
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 477 KB
- Series
- Miss Zukas 2
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780380770311
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
The ever-conscientious Miss Helma Zukas of Bellehaven, Washington, is not one to renege on a promiseβeven one made hastily . . . and too long ago to possibly remember! So when an anonymous note in the morning mail reminds her of her vow to bring her high school classmates together for a twenty-year reunion, Miss Zukas hops to and begins organizing the perfect celebration . . . despite some vague and mysterious warnings about dire consequences.
But when a secret saboteur disrupts her well-planned reunionβstranding Helma and her old classmates on a fogbound island with a murderer in their midstβthe intrepid librarian-sleuth takes charge once again. With a dubious assist from her raffish friend Ruth, Miss Zukas is determined to close the books on crimes both current and overdue for solution . . . before the killer takes the alumni out of circulationpermanently.
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