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- Title: Larkspur
- Author : Sheila Simonson
- Release Date : January 16, 2011
- Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 468 KB
Description
Lark Dailey faces a weekend at the mountain lodge of her motherâs mentor, poet Dai Llewellyn, without enthusiasm, but Larkâs detective-lover Jay finds the proximity of a notorious pot-farm interesting. The setting, a remote Sierra lake, is idyllic, perfect for canoeing and wind-surfing, not to mention fireworks. Neither Lark nor Jay expects the Fourth of July to end in murder.
Surrounded by old friends, ex-lovers, devoted servants--and someone who does not love him--the poet collapses. He has been poisoned by tincture of larkspur in his Campari. The irony is not lost on Lark, whose bookstore is called Larkspur Books, nor on Jay, who is tapped to investigate.
Jayâs investigation is complicated by the murder of two key witnesses and by bizarre embellishments in all three killings. The embellishments suggest that something less straightforward than greed is driving the killer, something like madness. The tangle of suspicion widens to include not only the poetâs weekend guests but even Larkâs charming, book-loving clerk.
Lark worries that her mother, who comes to town after the San Francisco funeral, may be in danger too, because someone does not like poets, and Mary Dailey, a noted poet, is Llewellynâs literary executor. Her co-executor may have his own reasons for wanting to control the relics of Dai Llewellynâs past. As Jay awaits a search warrant, a cocktail party of survivors gathers to honor Larkâs mother, and Lark determines to crash it in time to prevent another poisoning. Unfortunately, sheâs not sure who the murderer is.