Bücher von Phyllis Wachob

The murder of the six-year-old girl from the small town of Cuyama had mesmerized the media for months. Vermilion Blew, just a few years older, was traumatized, mostly because she had known AnnaRose. Now, more than fifty years later, Very becomes embroiled in the investigation of the cold case. Along with Bradley Parker, aka the White Stetson, she prowls the small town of New Cuyama, remembering the places, the atmosphere and the claustrophobia of small-town life. While interviewing those witnesses who are still alive, she tries to tease out the truth. She wants to clear the name of AnnaRose's biological father, but he is keeping secrets, as are a number of witnesses. In the meantime, she has put on hold her planned trip to Canada to search for her missing fiancé.

Vermilion Blew, retired librarian and English teacher, has moved on from her mother's house, so she thinks, and has acquired a new home. She also gets a new cat she names Cleopatra. She has a new set of friends at Five Points, one of Bakersfield's newest retirement communities. But when Very's new acquaintances keep moving on to the marble forest, she begins to doubt that her move was a wise one. When she finds a body floating in the hot tub after the annual pool party, she now has concrete reasons to question her precipitous flight from the safety of the old neighborhood. Was the hot tub death just another older man on his last legs, or was it homicide? Very holds tight to her new circle of friends, but reaches out to her PI partner and her oldest friend, whose husband is a deputy sheriff, to solve the latest mystery.