Feminist Mystery Reviews
THE BLUE CORN MURDERS
Nancy Pickard
Delacorte, Aug 1998, $21.95, 272 pp.
ISBN: 0-385-31224-5
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
When Eugenia Potter finds pottery remains and carved shells on
her ranch just outside Tucson, she decides it is time to learn about
the Native Americans who once occupied the land. She packs her favorite
snacks and heads to Cortez, Colorado. There, Eugenia joins an archeological
camp, hoping that she can fulfill her dream of learning about the
previous residents and perhaps even seeing a ruin or two.
However, this is not an idyll trip back to nature. A busload of
Texas teenagers suddenly vanish and two attendees are murdered.
Eugenia decides it is time to investigate what is going on before
someone else, perhaps even herself, is hurt.
THE BLUE CORN MURDERS is an interesting Genia Potter mystery that
adds much richness to the main character, originally developed by
the late, great Virginia Rich. The story line is fulfilling and
the secondary characters provide great depth to this combination
archeological-culinary who-done-it, starring one of the top female
amateur sleuths to ever grace a novel. This reviewer strongly recommends
both the Rich and Pickard novels that make up this wonderful series
because both writers provide fabulous reading entertainment.
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