Burning Meredith (Libro en Inglés)

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ISBN: 9780727887764
ISBN: 9780727887764
Editorial: Severn House
Autor: Gunn, Elizabeth
Año de edición: 2018
N° Paginas: 192
Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
Descripción: A huge mountain fire leaves destruction – and death – in its wake. But are the charred remains of a male body really the result of a natural disaster, or murder?The Meredith Mountain fire starts on Labor Day weekend and rages for days – an awesome sight, leaving a trail of havoc and destruction in its wake. Alice Adams edits the Clark’s Fort Guardian newspaper, ably assisted by her nephew, Stuart Campbell, and the two cover the blaze for the paper, vowing the local community with their stunning photographs and features.When the fire is finally contained and the mop-up crew discover a burned male body under a fallen log, Alice and Stuart investigate. It seems he died in the fire, but with no ID and nobody knowing anything about the body, they soon face a daunting task – and some disturbing revelations. Can they unravel the truth?Review"Gunn introduces some engaging new characters" ― Kirkus Reviews"This departure from Gunn's Jake Hines and Sarah Burke police procedural series is a solid stand-alone with well-drawn characters, drawing on familiar investigative-journalism themes to create a thoroughly engaging crime novel" ― BooklistAbout the AuthorElizabeth Gunn is the author of the best-selling Jake Hines series of police procedurals set in Minnesota, where she grew up, and the Sarah Burke series set in Arizona, where she now lives. A long-time innkeeper with a taste for adventure, Elizabeth has lived ‘everywhere’ and been a private pilot and a diver, as well as a writer. She now lives in Tucson, Arizona and climbs mountains for fun.Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.Burning MeredithBy Elizabeth Gunn Severn House Publishers LimitedCopyright © 2018 Elizabeth GunnAll rights reserved.ISBN: 978-0-7278-8776-4CHAPTER 1The Meredith Mountain fire was the biggest story in south-central Montana while it lasted, and is still legendary in the annals of big western fires. Local citizens still relish colorful tales about the best and worst aspects of the fire: how fast it grew, how destructive it was, yet how quickly it gained national attention for a little weekly newspaper and launched an appealing rookie named Stuart Campbell on a distinguished career as a photo-journalist.Nobody ever proved what started the fire. But Alice Adams, who edited the Clark's Fort Guardian that year and read all the reports as they came down, believed the fire was human caused. 'There were no lightning storms that night,' she said, 'and the first responders found a trashy campsite.'On Labor Day weekend, a couple of day-hikers apparently stopped for lunch on a slope above Clark's Fort, and treated themselves to a wienie roast. Ignoring the plainly posted warnings about extreme fire danger, they set a few dead branches ablaze, speared hot dogs on two sticks and broke out the lukewarm beer they had carried upslope in their backpacks. By mid-afternoon, with their crumpled beer cans gleaming in the bunchgrass around them, they let the fire burn down to nothing and stomped on the coals. There was no water nearby and they had drunk all the beer, so they must have thrown what they thought was plenty of dirt on the ashes, said, 'What the hell, out is out,' and gone home.At sunset, the evening breeze hit the embers and the blaze revived. But it was one small fire in a vast wilderness – the fire lookout on Porphyry Peak didn't see the flames till near midnight. By sunrise on Tuesday morning, a crew of forest service volunteers had been assembled from Clark's Fort and a couple of neighboring towns. They drove to the fire site, or as near as they could get in a pumper truck, which carried 250 gallons of water, plus tools and protective clothing.Fire was burning briskly through tinder-dry underbrush and a stand of aspen. Three crew members muscled the hose uphill and began dampening the bushes around the blaze while their chief phoned down for another crew and more supplies.Mort Weatherby, owner-publisher o
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