Reviewed By: Woodstock - RAM
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Cyanide Wells
Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC
Marcia Muller
Class/Genre: Mystery
2003, Mysterious Press
Fourteen years before the action begins, Matt Lindstrom receives a phone call. A Wyoming sheriff has found an abandoned car with bloodstains on the interior and personal possessions still inside. The sheriff has traced the ownership to Lindstrom's wife and is attempting to locate her. But Gwen Lindstrom has filed for divorce and her husband has no idea of her whereabouts. Eventually she is presumed dead, and although there is no evidence directly linking Matt to her disappearance, the small community where they lived treats him like a pariah.
By 2002, Matt Lindstrom has moved to British Columbia, set up a charter fishing business and left his old life as a college instructor of photography behind him. But a phone call jerks him out of his hard won stability. The unidentified caller informs him that his wife is alive, living in a remote mountain town north of San Francisco. Unable to resist the chance that he might learn the truth about her desertion, Matt travels to Calilfornia, locates his wife, photographs her from a distance, and prepares to confront her.
But Gwen vanishes yet again, not alone this time, her twelve year old daughter is with her. Matt must work with Gwen's employer, roomate, and life companion to determine the truth about his wife. The search includes a stint on a Pulitzer prize winning local paper, harassment by corrupt politicians, a search for the truth about a long forgotten gold mine, and an entertaining mix of colorful local characters.
Perhaps a bit wooden in the presentation of all the various plot threads.
Woodstock - RAM
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