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| View Larger Image | Bone Harvest
by Mary Logue
| | List Price: | $23.95 |  | | 7 New starting at: | $5.10 | | 14 Used starting at: | $0.01 | | 3 Collectible starting at: | $23.95 | | | | | Sales Rank: | 1204129 | | Studio: | Ballantine Books | | | Binding: | Hardcover | | Number Of Pages: | 256 | | Publication Date: | June 15, 2004 | | Publisher: | Ballantine Books |
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Product Description
Then the quiet was broken. The baby reached up a hand and jerked at the tablecloth. A spoon hit her on the head, and she started to cry. Bertha Schuler stuck her head out the door and called that dinner was ready. The clock in the hallway struck the half hour. And the first shot was fired.
The unsolved murders at a remote Wisconsin farmhouse half a century ago have receded into time. But one deranged man will do anything to make sure that all of Pepin County remembers that bloody day.
The world was out of balance. It had been so for nearly fifty years. Only he could see it. Only he could change it.
When a quantity of dangerous pesticides is stolen from the local co-op, Deputy Sheriff Claire Watkins is called in to investigate. The thief has left one bizarre clue: the finger bone of a child long dead.
The pesticides soon reappear with devastating effect—in flowerbeds, in animal feed, and in a fatal concoction at a Fourth of July picnic. Each time, a tiny human bone is left at the scene. With the help of Harold Peabody, the quirky, aging editor of the Durand Daily, Claire unravels the secrets of the past, leading her to a pair of young lovers, a man enraged over his mother’s death, an obsessive recluse, and the deputy who first discovered the corpses of the Schuler family Claire desperately races against time to find the madman before he uses the lethal pesticide again. But he won’t be stopped. Not until he gets what he wants.
The truth must be told. Or more will die. The flowers and the birds were only the beginning. . . .
Written with Mary Logue’s trademark power and compassion, Bone Harvest is a bold, brilliant thriller that carries the reader deep into the heart of the Wisconsin bluffs country, into the hearts of its people—and to a startling conclusion. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 7 reviews)
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Bone Harvest 
There were so many characters involved with this book I forgot who was who, and who to think was commiting the crime. Took the fun out of it. The only reason I read it in the first place was because it's based in my home state of Wisconsin, and a little over an hours away.
April 18, 2006 | |
Good mystery, sad story 
I like this series. If you haven't read this series, start at the first one as characters develope from the beginning. I like the way Ms. Logue weaves the past story into the present, makes it very interesting.
March 22, 2006 | |
Pretty Good Mystery
This book is one of three mysteries I picked up for vacation reading. It follows classic mystery conventions to a fault, becoming fairly predictable. Both of the other books I chose, Excursion to Tindari and, especially, Summer of the Big Bachi, are far superior. But, if you want a fairly good quick read that won't upset your lazy afternoons at the beach, this one will work.
The writing seems forced and is especially weak when it wanders off into the protagonist's boring personal life (yes, of course her kid is cute and precocious). Without even reading the dust jacket, the writing style, stock characters, and narrative emphasis clue you in that the author is an upstanding country lady right out of Lake Woebegone. I'm sure she grows organic vegetables when not writing poetry. Maybe the writing would be more interesting if she spent some time in a grittier locale.
May 05, 2005 | |
Buried secrets
Claire Watkins, Deputy Sheriff in Fort Antoine, Wisconsin is back. This time she is investigating a fifty-year-old murder of an entire family that came to her attention while investigating the theft of pesticide. Shortly thereafter plants and people start being poisoned and it all points back to the long ago death of the Schuler's, a farm family consisting of two parents and five young children.
Mary Logue has written a very compelling story interweaving past and present. Both past and present characters were intriguing. It took a little effort to keep everyone straight, but it was well worth it. The story was suspenseful and though I found the ending to be a bit weak it did not detract from the overall enjoyment of the story.
August 22, 2004 | |
Chilling and sad 
Bone Harvest is the fourth entry in the Claire Watkins series, and is the first one that I have read-but I am looking for the first three books now! The setting for Bone Harvest is a small Wisconsin farm town that does not have, or usually need, many law enforcement resources. However, fifty years ago, a brutal mass murder in an isolated farmhouse eliminated an entire family and the police never found the killer.Using the quiet farm community with its violent history as a background, Mary Logue develops an absorbing story focusing on strange events that begin taking place shortly before the fiftieth anniversary of the crime. Pesticides stolen from the local farming co-operative reappear, first poisoning a garden, then a flock of chickens, and finally people at an outing. Claire Watkins begins to draw connections to the long ago killings when an anonymous letter writer provides hints to the local newspaper. Carefully tying together situations from today with characters from the past, Bone Harvest leads the reader to a conclusion that is simultaneously chilling and sad. Well written, suspenseful, and demonstrating sensitivity and empathy, I would recommend Bone Harvest to anyone.
July 19, 2004 | |
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