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Dead Renegade (2009)

by Victoria Houston(Favorite Author)

3.88 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1606480626 (ISBN13: 9781606480625)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Bleak House Books

series

A Loon Lake Mystery

review 1: Not as good as previous books in the series. I liked the main characters, and the northern Wisconsin setting, but there were way too many subplots going on. There were a couple murders, of course, but the author also touched on domestic abuse, a series of burglaries, financial scamming of the elderly, sibling rivalry, sexual molestation and bullying, all jammed into a shorter than usual book, skimmed over, then quickly wrapped up neatly in the last few pages.
review 2: While searching the basement of Bart Nystrom’s antique store with his daughter, Erin and her client Catherine Higgins, Doc Osborne unrolls an old carpet and finds a body. The corpse has evidently been hidden in the old carpet for years. The search is for an item belonging to Catherine Higgins... more and the last thing the group expected to find was a body. Doc immediately puts in a call to Police Chief Lew Harris and the antique store is temporarily closed. Doc welcomes the chance to call Lew since he is feeling a little uneasy about their relationship. Lew has a class reunion coming up and she hasn’t invited Doc. The two have been very close since Doc has worked as Lew’s deputy and he is feeling uneasy about the reunion and an old classmate coming to town.Both the cold case murder and Lew’s coming reunion are forced to the back burner when Mason, Lew’s granddaughter, has experienced something that has frightened her but she is not talking. Doc is concerned and anxious to find the underlying cause of Mason’s problem.C. J. Calverson has brought an upset Mason home. C. J. found Mason hiding in their garage. The Calverson’s have just moved to town. Curt Calverson, C. J.’s husband, is the CEO of Calverson Finance. C. J. is very friendly and invites Doc and Ray Pradt to join the couple on their boat. Curt is anything but friendly. Not only is he rude to the guests but to C. J. as well.Soon Lew begins to get reports about Calverson Finance and the fact that the company is taking advantage of elderly residents. Doc and Lew are trying to figure out what to do next about the Calverson Finance problem as well as attempting to solve the mystery of the body in the carpet. A local man has just been released from prison and it seems the recent robberies may have some connection to his return to town.Solving all of the problems currently facing Loon Lake keep Lew and Doc busy and Ray Pradt also lends a hand. Ray is always on hand to help Lew in her investigations and first in line to charm the ladies. There is a lot going on in this 10th book in the Loon Lake series. Dead Renegade can be read as a stand-alone but each book in the series is well worth reading. less

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