Bloodstains with Bronte
A Crime with the Classics Mystery
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Publisher Description
Classic novels and crime solving intertwine in Katherine Bolger Hyde's charming series. Bloodstains with Bronte is the second in a series that will puzzle and please fans of mystery and masterpieces alike.
Windy Corner is being remodeled into a writers' retreat. Two of the young workers, Jake and Roman, are showing too much of the wrong kind of interest in Katie, Emily's young single-mother housekeeper.
It's a stormy autumn and Emily is reading Wuthering Heights. Roman, a dark and brooding type, reminds her of Heathcliff. At a Halloween murder mystery fundraiser at Windy Corner, someone is found stabbed to death. Windy Corner's very own detective, Luke, is reluctantly forced to investigate Katie.
Luke digs into the background of the contractor, Jeremiah Edwards, and Emily, now reading Jane Eyre, realizes Jeremiah resembles St. John Rivers in his obsessive, tormented piety. Will Luke figure out who the murderer is before Katie ends up in jail or someone else is killed?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Hyde's lackluster second Crime with the Classics mystery (after 2016's Arsenic with Austen), former literature professor Emily Cavanaugh hosts a murder mystery event at Windy Corner, the mansion she inherited from her great-aunt in Stony Beach, Ore. The game turns deadly when one of the actors, a local youth with a bad reputation, is stabbed to death. Katie Parker, Emily's beloved housekeeper, has a powerful motive, and the ensuing investigation jeopardizes Emily's newly rekindled romance with sheriff Luke Richards. Emily identifies her own suspect, a construction worker obsessed with Katie and reminiscent of Wuthering Heights' Heathcliff. Meanwhile, Luke enlists Emily's aid in solving the crime, despite her civilian status and lack of objectivity. Implausible plot lines and one-dimensional characters may put off some readers, but those who appreciate literary allusions and quaint settings might enjoy a visit to Stony Beach. Emily's Eastern Orthodox faith and Christian themes figure prominently throughout, adding crossover appeal for the evangelical market.
