Discovery of a hex ring attached to a finger bone on Ruth's Vermont farm soon ends up in a Fall "Harvest of Bones"
"This is a well-wrought tale...evokes a strong sense of place and creates realistic characters coping with human--and--humorous problems." --"Publishers Weekly"
"Wright melds setting and character with the skill of Stephen Dobyns in his Saratoga mysteries." --"Booklist"
"Vividly offbeat characters and warm accounts of life on the farm...a solid follow-up to Wright's promising first outing, "Mad Season."" --"Kirkus Reviews"
Discovery of a hex ring attached to a finger bone on Ruth's Vermont farm soon ends up in a Fall "Harvest of Bones"
Catastrophe hits a Vermont apple orchard: a plague of maggots, hate calls, and poisoned fruit that kills a Jamaican picker. Ruth rushes to help--only to see the troubles pile up on "her" doorstep
"A wonderfully observed Vermont. Wright doesn't put a foot wrong in this well-wrought mystery." --"The Boston Globe"
"Well written with an incredible sense of place, an excellent plot...and a very exciting ending." --"Mysterious Women"
"Wright gives us a clear and compassionate look at a threatened way of life...we are left satisfied, not only in terms of the intellectual puzzle, but also...
Catastrophe hits a Vermont apple orchard: a plague of maggots, hate calls, and poisoned fruit that kills a Jamaican picker. Ruth rushes to help--only ...
Drusie Valentini feels she is trapped on a merry-go-round, going nowhere. She doesn't fit in with the rest of her arty family: her extravagant puppeteer father, his gypsylike assistant Fey who moved in when her mother left; even her pesky brother Punch. A party a boyfriend talked her into giving ends in disaster-and in getting sent to a strict boarding school. In a year where it seems that everyone is pulling her strings, Drusie is forcd to come to terms with her life with the people she loves best-and with the person she is, and hopes to be.
Drusie Valentini feels she is trapped on a merry-go-round, going nowhere. She doesn't fit in with the rest of her arty family: her extravagant puppete...