Catastrophe hits a Vermont apple orchard: a plague of maggots, a spray
of RoundUp, hate calls from a local cult, poisoned fruit that kills a
Jamaican picker, and a young girl in a risky relationship. Dairy farmer Ruth Willmarth rushes to help--only to watch the troubles pile up on her own doorstep!
"Wright doesn't put a foot wrong in this well-wrought mystery." (The
Boston Globe)
Mystery by Nancy Means Wright; originally published by St. Martins Minotaur
Nancy Means Wright has published 15 books of fiction and nonfiction, including 5 mystery novels (St. Martin's Press), a novella (Worldwide Library), a mainstream YA (Dutton), and two historical mysteries, Midnight Fires and The Nightmare (forthcoming Perseverance Press, '10 and '11). The Pea Soup Poisonings won the '06 Agatha Award for Best Children's/YA Novel, and the Great Circus Train Robbery was an '08 Agatha Award finalist. Poems & short stories have appeared in numerous magazines, including American Literary Review, Seventeen, Redbook, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (forthcoming), Level Best Books et al.
