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A Muddle of Motives
Liz returns to the family farm, done with her summer internship and ready to take it easy and focus on her horse, Comet, during the last lazy week before her final year of college. But her dad, Harry, while visiting a neighbor at the back of a dead-end road, stumbles across a corpse, another murder. The victim was a hated local, and there is no shortage of suspects. Harry and Liz are pulled onto the case when the police arrest Harry’s hired hand, ignoring the troubled teenager’s iron-clad alibi. To Liz’s dismay, the pair are soon investigating most of their own friends and neighbors. It seems everyone had a motive, and why were so many of them on that lonely, dead-end road at just the wrong time? With the police convinced that they “have their man”, it’s up to Harry and Liz to weave their way through the means and motives, and track down the true culprit.
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A Matter of Manners
“You did not find a body.”
But Harry did, in an abandoned car at the back of his new field. When the responding officers put up their crime scene tape, Harry is tossed off the land, denied access to his farm equipment and prevented from working, while the police plod along with their investigations. Harry decides there is nothing to be done except find those responsible for his troubles and teach them some manners. Soon he has drawn his daughter, Liz, away from her college studies and into his shenanigans. It doesn’t take long before they realize murderers don’t worry about politeness.
What readers are saying…
Enjoyable storyline, great character building. Enjoyed my read and hopeful for future stories with Liz And Harry Hawkins.
A Matter of Manners brings the crotchety, unabashed pragmatism of the seasoned farmer face to face with the contrast of the technology and media driven younger generations in the storied ivory tower of academia. Told with wit, humor, and the thread of love that keeps it all knit together, it’s the perfect Midwestern story for all those who straddle both worlds across their families. Looking forward to McKown’s next harvest!