A theology professor becomes a widow and returns to her rural home to teach at the small college where she met her husband.
Kenji Yamashiro held a prestigious job as a physicist in a Washington, DC, science institute when he mysteriously died.
Two years later his widow, Catharine, gives up her position as a seminary professor and returns to her family home in Pennsylvania to care for her aging mother. She takes a job teaching at the local college where she met her husband, a young immigrant from Japan.
The past is not what it seemed when she discovers secrets about her husband and is stalked by his former colleagues or is it the son of an enemy? Or an unknown relative that shows up at her mother's rehab facilitiy?
Catharine befriends a classmate from the past who has his own struggles teaching science at this conservative religious school.
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Chapter One
Catharine's first mistake was having her husband cremated, but she wouldn't realize it until much later.
When high school principal Jerry Egge is brutally murdered, Deputy sheriff Dave Jenkins begins an eerie investigation. Just about everyone in Soldier, Minnesota, is a suspect.
"Murder isn't usually this funny."
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Following several murders, means, motive, and opportunity all point to out-of-work actresses Bootsie Kittredge and Babs Harrison. Their claims of righteousness and lack of guilt seem fabricated, thanks to a cheerfull announcement made to the patrons
