Trail Of Murder

Out west to help out a friend as a replacement cook on a trail ride across the Continental Divide, English professor and poet Lee Squires becomes caught up in the deadly squabbles of the Strand family

Trail of Murder

Literature & Fiction

Andreae, Christine

United States

St Martins Pr

English professor, poet, and professional house sitter Lee Squires is swamped in a sea of student compositions when she receives a call for help from childhood friends in Montana. Happy to leave her students and Washington, D.C., Lee travels out to the Eastern Front of the Rockies to spend her Easter break as temporary cook for the J-E dude ranch. The ranch and related cattle operations are managed by Dave and Trudy Fife, while Dave's brother, Mac, runs the Sacred Paw Institute - dedicated to saving the grizzly and its habitat in Montana. The ranch is in severe financial distress, though, and the Fifes are hoping for an infusion of capital from a group of Japanese businessmen interested in investing in the American West. Lee's challenge is to meet the quirky culinary needs of these important guests, but she is shaken up when she discovers a body with the head, hands, feet, and genitals missing. Although the killing occurred some time before Lee's arrival, her suspicions are aroused, and when another body turns up, Lee's investigative talents shift into high gear.

Grizzly: A Mystery

While filling in as a cook on a llama pack trek in the mountains of Montana, Lee Squires is forced to discover who is killing off the members of the backwoods trip.

A Small Target

Matty McCullough, the first women to command a major fire site, must contend with a militant band of nudists who refuse to vacate their homes while the flames steadilly advance. Original.

Smoke Eaters: A Thriller (Mattie McCullough Mysteries)

Minotaur Books

When Christine Andreae signed up for twenty-seven hours of patient-care training with the Blue Ridge Hospice in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, her parents were still living and her grandparents' funerals hadn't involved a viewing. Her only direct experience with death had been when, at the age of six, she had gone with her father to the viewing for the family's parish priest. At a training session, the leader passed around a tray of small objects and asked participants to choose one that represented what they felt they could give to a dying person. Christine randomly took an old-fashioned key, for no reason that she knew. And when it was her turn to speak, "feeling like a liar" she stammered something about "opening doors to people." Looking back, she says, "Perhaps what I wanted was to open a door for myself." In its directness and honesty, this beautiful book about accompanying the dying is far from saddening-instead it is truly inspirational in the best sense. Starting with Bivie, her first patient, then going to the very different Amber, and to several others whose need for care was more short-term, the author began to see terminal illness not as some dreaded "thing" hovering in the distance, but as an "everyday" reality. She learned that because the dying continue to live until that final day comes, daily activities continue, tapering off gradually. The mothers among her patients wanted to care for children and households, to manage their affairs, or to pursue other interests-one, for instance, wrote (very bad) poetry. They wanted to continue doing the things they did before their lives were interrupted by illness (in most of Christine's cases, cancer). Contrary to the ideas so many of us have about our behavior in the face of terminal illness, the dying do not welcome people tiptoeing around their illness and offering solemn sympathy. They want things to be as much like they had been as possible. And they need someone to be there, to talk to, to listen to, to gossip with, and sometimes, of course, to complain to. When her first patient, Bivie, died, Andreae wrote: How presumptuous I was at the outset, thinking that I could somehow "help" Bivie die! Ultimately, the process of dying-like the process of living-is a unique and solitary task for each of us. No one can "get it right" for us. On the other hand, we can bear witness to each i0other's passages. At birth and death, we can hear each other, love each other, learn from each other. And there is the most profound help in that-for everyone present.

When Evening Comes: The Education of a Hospice Volunteer

Business & Money

Job Hunting & Careers

Thomas Dunne Books

In the sequel to Trail of Murder, English professor and  poet Lee Squires returns to Montana for a simple temporary job, cooking  at her friends' dude ranch, but things begin to get complicated when  she discovers a severely mutilated corpse.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Describes the various aspects of spiritualism and some of its more famous practitioners.

Seances & spiritualists (The Weird and horrible library)

Lippincott

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Books by Andreae, Christine

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Trail of Murder

Grizzly: A Mystery

A Small Target

Smoke Eaters: A Thriller (Mattie McCullough Mysteries)

When Evening Comes: The Education of a Hospice Volunteer

Grizzly: A Mystery

Seances & spiritualists (The Weird and horrible library)