Electric City
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4.0 • 1 Rating
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- $4.99
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
A mousy, secretive researcher at a news-clipping service who recently won $20,000 on "Jeopardy!" is missing. Who is Irene March?
That's the answer (in the form of a question) facing investigator Jane da Silva, who can collect on her eccentric uncle's vast legacy only when she solves a mystery that's stumped everyone else. When Jane places a large "Have you seen this woman?" ad in the Seattle paper, she gets intriguing responses from a rodeo queen, a dying child, and a disgraced church deacon... leads that send Jane east of the Cascades.
By the time she gets to Electric City, the site of more violence, she realizes that Irene March's placid exterior shielded a cunning, even ruthless soul. And a deadly dangerous game that could have people asking, "Who killed Jane da Silva?"
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In a rambling adventure, following Amateur Night , Jane da Silva, Beck's Seattle sleuth who must investigate hopeless cases in order to inherit her eccentric uncle's fortune, searches for a missing woman, a recent winner of $20,000 on TV's Jeopardy! Irene March, employed by a news clipping service, has been missing for a week when two co-workers ask Jane to find her. Jane learns that Irene had developed a blackmailing operation using the news stories she came across in her job and that at least two of her victims--a woman exploiting her daughter to raise funds for a bogus operation and another whose distinctive car was seen leaving the scene of a hit-and-run accident--had reason to want Irene dead. When Irene's body is found at the bottom of a ravine, Jane sticks with the case and gets caught up in a complex chain of events that leads her into a confrontation with a killer in Electric City, near the Grand Coulee Dam. Although Beck gives readers an appealing tour of Washington State and provides Jane with a country-singer love interest, this tale is underpowered.
