Book description
While arranging a historic preservation project at a St. Augustine
bed-and-breakfast, Faye Longchamp and her husband Joe Wolf Mantooth
investigate the murder of an employee's abusive boyfriend. Strangers is
the sixth in Evans' series of Faye Longchamp archaeological mysteries.
Evans explores themes of protection, love, and loss in her absorbing
sixth Faye Longchamp mystery (after 2009's Floodgates). A pregnant Faye
and her husband, Joe Wolf Mantooth, who have started an archeological
consulting business, are excited by their first big job--excavating the
rear garden of Dunkirk Manor, a historic house in St. Augustine, Fla.,
that's now a bed-and-breakfast. When Glynis Smithson, the manor's
attractive manager, goes missing, a note for Faye and several artifacts
in her abandoned car are found. Blood on the front seat suggests foul
play. The local police consult Faye about the artifacts, and her
research skills provide important clues to Glynis's disappearance.
Compelling extracts from a 16th-century Spanish priest's manuscript
diary that Faye begins translating lend historical ballast. Determined
that old mysteries see the light of day, the feisty Faye never gives up
until justice is done. Mary Anna Evans has degrees in physics and
engineering, but her heart is in the past. Her series character, Faye
Longchamp, lives the exciting life of an archaeologist, and Mary Anna
envies her a little. Mary Anna's award-winning series of Faye's
adventures includes Artifacts, Relics, Effigies, Findings, Floodgates,
Strangers and, new in 2011, Plunder.
