Mining for justice

Mining for justice

Kathleen Ernst, 1959-

Book - 2017

Chloe Ellefson is excited to be learning about Wisconsin's Cornish immigrants and mining history while on temporary assignment at Pendarvis, a historic site in charming Mineral Point. But when her boyfriend, police officer Roelke McKenna, discovers long-buried human remains in the root cellar of an old Cornish cottage, Chloe reluctantly agrees to mine the historical record for answers. She soon finds herself in the center of a heated and deadly controversy that threatens to close Pendarvis. While struggling to help the historic site, Chloe must unearth dark secrets, past and present . . . before a killer comes to bury her. Praise: "Richly imagined and compelling, Mining for Justiceonce again highlights Kathleen Ernst's prowes...s as a storyteller, with its nuanced characters and intersecting mysteries . . . Ernst is a master of reconstructing the past, providing vivid and authentic details about the lives of early Cornish immigrants in Wisconsin, while showing how the secrets of those long-buried people still matter in the present day."--Susanna Calkins, author of the Macavity-winning Lucy Campion Mysteries

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Subjects
Women museum curators > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Genres
Detective and mystery fiction
Mystery fiction
Published
Woodbury, Minnesota : Midnight Ink [2017]
Language
English
Main Author
Kathleen Ernst, 1959- (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
xvii, 364 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
ISBN
9780738753348
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Review by Kirkus Book Review

A curator takes on a temporary assignment in a new town.Chloe Ellefson, a curator of collections at Old World Wisconsin, and her boyfriend, Officer Roelke McKenna of the Eagle Police Department, have taken a trip to Mineral Point, Wisconsin, where Chloe's helping out at Pendarvis, another site run by the state historical society, and they're both going to assist their friend Adam Bolitho restore an old stone house he owns. Roelke's upset that his cousin Libby is distancing herself from Adam, who Roelke thinks would be a great partner for her after a nasty divorce. The news that Pendarvis may be closing spells trouble for Chloe with her new colleagues because Old World Wisconsin is lapping up the lion's share of state funds. Then Adam and Roelke find human remains and artifacts in the root cellar of Adam's cottage. Adam's grandmother, deeply upset, asks Chloe to do some research to help identify the victim, and Chloe, always a sucker for historical mysteries (A Memory of Muskets, 2016, etc.), agrees. Faced with anger and threatening notes from the staff at Pendarvis, she must count on her friend site curator Claudia Doyle for help. A much less friendly person on site is private researcher Dr. Yvonne Miller, whose snarky, superior attitude annoys everyone. When Yvonne falls dead at Chloe's feet in Polperro House, her demise becomes just another problem for Chloe to solve. Back in Eagle, Roelke tries to figure out a way to stop his cousin's dangerously self-satisfied ex-husband from harassing her without getting into trouble himself. All these problems turn out to be rooted in the history Chloe unearths about the Pascoe family, who moved from Cornwall, England, to Mineral Point to carve out a better life for themselves, surmounting many obstacles along the way. The eighth in the series contrasts the difficult life of Wisconsin's Cornish miners with the heroine's burgeoning romance, highlighting both her researching skills and her unusual feel for the past. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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