Books

1. Past Imperfect (Worldwide Library Mysteries)
   

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2. Murder Is the Deal of the Day (Worldwide Library Mysteries)
   

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3. Crooks, Crimes, and Christmas (Worldwide Library Mysteries)
   

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4. Sins Out of School (Worldwide Library Mysteries)
   

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5. Reunions Can Be Murder (Worldwide Library Mysteries)
   

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6. Skeletons in Purple Sage (Worldwide Library Mysteries)
   

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7. The Devil's Hawk (Worldwide Library Mysteries)
   

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8. Scavengers (Worldwide Library Mysteries)
   

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9. The Maine Mulch Murder (Worldwide Library Mysteries)
   

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10. Up and Down (Worldwide Library Mysteries)
    

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11. Katie's Gold (Paul Fischer Mysteries (Paperback))
    

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12. Acts of Vengeance (DCI Neil Paget Mysteries)
    

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13. Drybone Hollow (Owen Allison Mysteries)
    

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14. The Body of a Woman (Superintendent Mike Yeadings Mysteries)
    

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15. Medusa (Venus Diamond Mysteries)
    

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16. Song of the Bones (Chantalene Mysteries)
    

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17. Murder in the Blood (Sheriff Frank Decker Mysteries)
    

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18. Second Advent (Nick Bertetto Mysteries)
    

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19. Too Good to Refuse (Harlequin Forrester Square)
    

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20. Axis of Conflict: The Terror File (Stony Man)
    

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21. Shattered Image (Toni Sullivan Mysteries)
    

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22. The Athenian Murders
    

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23. Fish, Blood, and Bone
    

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24. The Interpretertorm
    

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25. Moghul Buffet
    

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Average customer rating: very well written regional mystery

Past Imperfect (Worldwide Library Mysteries) Kathleen Hills Manufacturer: Worldwide Library ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback General | Mystery | Mystery & Thrillers | Subjects | Books Women Sleuths | Mystery | Mystery & Thrillers | Subjects | Books General | Mystery & Thrillers | Subjects | Books General | Romance | Subjects | Books Similar Items: Hunter's Dance Witch Cradle A Field of Darkness A Stolen Season: An Alex McKnight Novel (Alex McKnight Mysteries) Heat of the Moon, The ASIN: 0373264712

Book Description

A seasoned fisherman of hardy Norwegian stock, Nels Bertelsen is found dead on his boat, apparently from a bee sting to which he was highly allergic. No one questions the tragic randomness of this accident except John McIntire, a retired military intelligence officer and now the new constable of St. Adele, Michigan, the hometown to which he has returned after thirty years abroad.

McIntire suspects that someone actually places the bees in the victim's clothing and replaced his vial of antidote with poison. Bertelsen was a hot-tempered man -- but had he picked one fight too many? As McIntire probes deeper into the victims life, a teenage girl is found strangled to death but her body disappears before McIntire arrives on the scene. The no-nonsense soldier gets busy reacquainting himself with Michigan's Upper Peninsula as well as the folks he grew up with . . . and discovers some buried secrets worth killing for.

Customer Reviews:

very well written regional mystery.......2002-07-08

John looks forward to some serenity, but almost immediately he investigates a homicide that he quickly solves. A year later, fisherman Nels Bertelsen is found dead aboard his boat, the victim of a bee bite. At first it appears to be a tragic accident, but John uncovers evidence that leads him to conclude that someone placed the bee in the victim's clothing while the medicine that would have saved Nels was replaced by something useless. The only problem is nobody had a motive to murder the man.

PAST IMPERFECT is a very well written regional mystery starring an enigmatic hero who is readjusting to life in the USA. The supporting cast is colorful and eccentric while the plot is fast-paced and exciting. Katherine Hills makes the 1950's in the peninsula of Northern Michigan seem real in the mind's eye of the reader, who along with reviewer, looks forward to more works starring the True Grit like character of John McIntire.

Harriet Klausner

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Past Imperfect (Worldwide Library Mysteries) Kathleen Hills Manufacturer: Worldwide Library ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OWKVVC

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