| To Darkness and to Death Contributor(s): Spencer-Fleming, Julia (Author), Toren, Suzanne (Read by) |
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ISBN: 079273548X ISBN-13: 9780792735489 Publisher: Sound Library OUR PRICE: $44.96 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: June 2005 Annotation: Episcopalian priest Clare Fergusson and married police chief Russ Van Alstyne are constantly battling the growing attraction between them, but each time they promise themselves to stay apart, a crime in their small upstate New York town pulls them together. It's a woman's disappearance that roils the peace of Millers Kill this time. Family heirs are on the verge of selling one of the last Adirondack "camps"--grand mansions built in the woods or on the lakeshore, where their wealthy owners go to "rough it" in the summer. This particular camp is about to be sold, but contention over the woman's disappearance holds up the final signing. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne Mysteries (Audio) |
| Physical Information: 1.55" H x 7.16" W x 6.62" (0.97 lbs) |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Demographic Orientation - Small Town - Geographic Orientation - New York |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the small Adirondack town of Millers Kill, an old lumberman sits in the dark with his gun across his knees. Not far away, an unemployed logger sleeps off his bender from the night before. The owner of the town's last paper mill tosses in his bed. And a young woman, one of three heirs to the 250,000-acre Great Camp, wakes alone in darkness, bound and gagged. Chief of police Russ Van Alstyne wants nothing more than a quiet day of hunting in the mountains on his fiftieth birthday. His wife needs to have the town's new luxury resort ready for its gala opening night. The reverend Clare Fergusson expects to spend the day getting St. Alban's Church ready for the bishop's annual visit. Her long-distance suitor from New York expects some answers about their relationship during his weekend in town. In Millers Kill, where everyone knows everyone and all are part of an interconnected web of blood or acquaintance, one person's troubles have a way of ensnaring others. What begins as a simple case of a woman lost in the woods leads to a tangle of revenge, blackmail, assault, kidnapping, and murder. As the hours tick by, Russ and Clare struggle to make sense of their town's plunge into chaos-and their own chaotic emotions. Something terrible waits in the ice-rimed mountains cradling Millers Kill. Something that won't be content with just one death-or two. In To Darkness and to Death, Julia Spencer-Fleming continues her moving story of the way a small town, as well as a great city, can harbor evil, and the struggle of two honest people to deal with the ever-present threat of their feelings for one another. |
Contributor Bio(s): Spencer-Fleming, Julia: - Julia Spencer-Fleming is an Agatha, Anthony, Barry, Dilys, Gumshoe, and Macavity award winner. She studied acting and history at Ithaca College and received her JD at the University of Maine School of Law. Her books have been short-listed for the Edgar and Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice awards. She lives in a 190-year-old farmhouse in Buxton, Maine, with her husband and three children. Toren, Suzanne: -Suzanne Toren has over thirty years of experience in narration. She has won the American Foundation for the Blind's Scourby Award for Narrator of the Year, AudioFile magazine named her the 2009 Best Voice in Nonfiction & Culture, and she is the recipient of multiple Earphones Awards. She performs on and off Broadway and in regional theaters and has appeared on Law & Order and in various soap operas. |