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In the fourth case for rural Wisconsin deputy sheriff Claire Watkins, a deranged numerologist steals some industrial-strength insect and weed killer and begins poisoning his way up the food chain, leaving behind a telltale trail of human fingers. They point to the horrific massacre of a German farming family some 50 years ago. Claire enlists the help of a newspaperman with a long memory in her race to solve the old murders and prevent fresh woe. Meanwhile, love interest Rich keeps his hand in, deepening their relationship with desultory doggedness. Logue employs a score of viewpoints, which has the reader clambering into and out of the nondescript personae of numerous bit players and dilutes the book's psychological depth, keeping it less on a par with Thomas H. Cook or Ruth Rendell than with an episode of Law & Order--a good episode, however, with ample suspense and swift turnings to keep readers up well past bedtime. For larger collections and fans of downtoearth regional mystery writers, such as Jance, Barr, or Pickard. David Wright
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