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DEAD SPIDER

Victoria Houston

A Loon Lake Mystery

In the next installment to the Loon Lake Mystery series, Lewellyn Ferris and Doc Osborne must solve a murder that shatters the picturesque Wisconsin lake town community at the height of summer.

On a lovely Sunday afternoon in late June, the annual Loon Lake Youth Fishing Tournament is coming to a close. People are happy, kids are full of ice cream, and teenagers are setting off firecrackers so loud that no one hears a gunshot.

When the crowd thins out, an attractive young wife makes a grisly discovery: A single bullet to the head has killed her much-older husband—the richest man in Wisconsin.

Meanwhile, as Police Chief Lewellyn Ferris gets the murder investigation underway, her good friend and deputy coroner, “Doc” Osborne, is alarmed to hear that his oldest grandchild, fifteen-year-old Beth, has been caught in a drug sting.

And Loon Lake's idyllic summer is further shattered when numerous elderly patients in the local nursing home discover they have been robbed.

In her teens and twenties, mystery author Victoria Houston was the classic hometown girl who couldn't wait to leave her small Wisconsin town. She has not only returned to her hometown of Rhinelander, but she has based her popular Loon Lake mystery series in the region's fishing culture. She has been featured in The Wall Street Journal and on National Public Radio.
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Published 2017-05-01 by Tyrus Books

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Gripping, atmospheric and smart . . . I enjoy Houston's Loon Lake mysteries enormously. -- T. Jefferson Parker, New York Times bestselling author of The Room of White Fire

[S]eries fans will appreciate Loon Lake's starring role, with its local color and murderous urges lurking just beneath the placid waters.

Houston populates her little burg with two engaging protagonists and a steady stream of mildly eccentric townies as she leisurely moves a clever plot toward a suspenseful and satisfying conclusion.