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Murder at Walden Pond [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
eBook by Al Blanchard
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eBook Category: Mystery/Crime
eBook Description:  Middle School History Teacher Steve Asher is forcibly removed from his role of helping young people when he is charged with the murder of a student's sister. Asher is counseling a troubled boy, Petey Oliver, whose dysfunctional family is represented by Susan Oliver, a young attractive woman trying hard to keep her bright but disturbed brother out of trouble. Asher meets Susan over coffee to discuss ways they can help Petey, but when we see them together again he is fishing her body out of Walden Pond. Asher becomes a prime suspect in the murder after Susan's diary is turned over to a hungry reporter naming Steve as her lover. In order to clear his name and regain his reputation, Asher is torn from his academic tower and forced into a quest to find Susan's real murderer. Asher struggles to survive in an alien hostile environment where someone has brutally murdered a woman he hardly knew and is trying to silence him. All the while he is being harassed by the police who suspect him, ostracized by the community, questioned by students and threatened with suspension by the school board for a crime he did not commit. The key to the crime hinges on a runaway boy and a politician running for Governor. Asher's quest leads back to Walden Pond where he comes face to face with a killer.
eBook Publisher: Salvo Press, Published: 2003
Fictionwise Release Date: May 2003
Available eBook Formats [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe - What's this?]: SECURE MOBIPOCKET FORMAT [260 KB], SECURE MICROSOFT READER FORMAT [249 KB] - Requires Microsoft Reader 2.1.1 for PCs, or Microsoft Reader 2.2.2 on Pocket PC 2002 handheld devices. Some older Pocket PCs can be upgraded. Learn More., SECURE EREADER (RECOMMENDED) FORMAT [195 KB], SECURE ADOBE READER 7 FORMAT [667 KB]
Secure Adobe: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
Microsoft Reader ISBN, eReader (recommended) ISBN: 9781930486133
MobiPocket Reader ISBN: 1930486138
 
"Al Blanchard's numerous short stories are consistently clever and well-crafted, and now, with Murder at Walden Pond, he has proven that his storytelling talents translate equally well to the novel-length yarn. It's both a puzzling mystery and an insightful commentary on human nature."--William G. Tapply, author of Muscle Memory and Scar Tissue
"Al Blanchard's Steve Asher series brings to the crime genre one of the most reluctant detectives in recent memory. Teacher-detective Asher is full of human foibles and has a big heart for the students in his care. His curiosity about the unseen taps that place in all of us that doesn't want to believe there's evil in the world. And Asher's wry humor is a triumphant sneer at life's tragedy. Murder at Walden Pond is written in a breezy style that evokes character through dialogue. It also illuminates the peculiarities of New England through a shrewd observer's deep laugh at those terrors that hover just beyond consciousness."--Richard Sawyer, author of The Priest of Anguish: D.H. Lawrence's Failure at Intimacy
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