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Sharyn McCrumb (Author)
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Publication Date: Aug 4 1994 | Series: Elizabeth MacPherson mystery
"Sharyn McCrumb is a born storyteller."
Mary Higgins Clark
Sharyn McCrumb's acclaimed sequel to MISSING SUSAN.
Forensic anthropologist Elizabeth MacPherson heads to Danville, Virginia, to save her brother Bill--a novice lawyer--from a charge that could send him to prison. It seems that eight women, the daughters of Confederate veterans, had asked Bill to sell their antebellum mansion. But the real estate deal is the cover for a calculated deception. As Bill finds himself facing fraud charges, his clients suddenly disappear without a trace. It will fall to Elizabeth to follow a twisted trail of bitterness and resentment--one that leads to a Civil War secret that may be the key to the ugly truth....

A MAIN SLECTION OF THE MYSTERY GUILD


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Although billed as an Elizabeth MacPherson mystery, there is too little mystery and too little McPherson in this convoluted tale, which will please Civil War buffs more than mystery fans. Elizabeth's brother, Bill, a new lawyer, sets up shop in Danville, Va., with Amy Powell (A. P.) Hill, descendant of the southern general known by the same initials. The firm's first few cases aren't auspicious. Bill's mother hires him to secure her divorce from his father, and eight elderly women ask him to sell their mansion, the Home for Confederate Widows, so they can move into a nursing facility; meanwhile A. P. defends a man who bounces checks. The pace picks up when the body of a young woman is found in the trunk of A. P.'s client's car and a wealthy businessman from New York wants to buy the house very quickly. Elizabeth, who has been represented in letters sent from Scotland, finally flies home to help the fledgling attorneys. Interspersed is the tale of Civil War soldier Gabriel Hawks, who with a friend confiscates a part of the Confederate treasury. Although McCrumb ties the disparate threads together nicely, most mystery readers will wish for more suspense.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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4.0 out of 5 stars No lament for this fine mystery Aug 9 2002
By Gary M. Greenbaum
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Newly minted attorney Bill MacPherson sets up shop in Southside Virginia with law partner A.P. Hill (yes, she is descended from the General). As A.P. busies herself in a murder case, Bill finds himself in hot water when some old ladies whose house he's just sold just maybe don't own the house. And just why did they want the money wired to the Cayman Islands? And where are they? It falls to sister Elizabeth to sort things out.

Quick moving, an easy read. Even though as a lawyer myself (Virginia, too), stories about a lawyer's troubles are not entertainment for me, it was still an enjoyable read. ...

Somewhat of an annoyance for me were a number of errors McCrumb made about Virginia law--for example, the prosecutor would be referred to as the Commonwealth's Attorney. More an annoyance than anything else but it displays a lack of research detail.
Well worth reading.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Continuing saga of the MacPherson family Jun 24 2002
By A Customer
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This series is quite different from the Appalacian Ballard series but vive la difference. There is a lot of sly humor tucked away, especially if you have read the others (not necessarily in any particularly order). Think more of the family and friends saga of Stephanie Plum but with more literary wit and you have the gist of it. I am waiting impatiently for the next book (PMS Outlaws was the last) to see where Bill and AP are going, what cousin Jeffrey is up to and how Elizabeth will reinvent herself.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Partial Lamenting over MacPherson's Lament Jan 24 2002
By Ramona Honan
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I was all set to enjoy this book as much as I enjoyed Ms. McCrumb's later Appalachia series. Unfortunately, I found that her earlier work does not compare to the work that she produces today.

MacPherson's Lament is a continuation of the series about forensic anthropologist Elizabeth MacPherson and the travails of her southern family. This book concerns her brother, Bill, who unwittingly sets himself up for charges of fraud when he sells an antebellum mansion for a group of Southern ladies to a Yankee fortune hunter. He finds out later that the house really belongs to the State of Virginia--his clients disappearing to parts unknown.

Elizabeth helps him out of this predicament in addition to helping his law partner, A. Powell Hill, with a murder case she is trying in court.

One review says that the book would lead to "a Civil War secret that may be the key to the ugly truth...." I did not find one at all, just a series of misunderstandings and disappointment.

For those who like them, this would make a very enjoyable cozy mystery read. I was expecting more, though, and like one reviewer I really saw no mystery in the book. But, I still like Sharyn McCrumb's work and plan to read the further adventures of Elizabeth MacPherson.

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