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Summary: Storyline ....
Review: Since Amazon didn't post an editorial review, here's the description from the back of the book to help you decide if this book is for you: "Imagine the urbane John Putnam Thatcher, senior vice president of Sloan Guaranty Trust, striding down the Appalacian Trail in boots and breeches, loaded with backpack and dehyrated rations, accompanied by an old Down East crony, Henry Morland. Imagine the odds of their finding, along that 2,000 mile trail, one Steven Lester laid to rest (albeit wtih a hammer) in a picturesque housing development with the wildly inappropriate name of Fiord Haven. Consider the improbability of Thatcher and Morland -- both men of great martial experience -- trangling with Steven Lester's two wives, Amanda and Eunice, either of whom had reason to profit as a widow and both of whom intend to. In the midst of the hectic milieu of hig-pressure salesmanship and murder, their cat fights add a special poignancy to the genveral discord and bolster the notion that either of them could have done in Steven Lester ..."

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Summary: Poor Thatcher, he can't even get a vacation from murder!
Review: We've already had a good synopsis of the book. Let me just say that I love John Putnam Thatcher. I wish Lathen's books were more available. I thought this one was really good. Thatcher gets away from his desk and off on the hiking trail, but his hiking companion finds a dead body. Thatcher gets drawn into the investigation. The dead man was also an avid hiker, but it's his complex relationship with his wife and ex-wife that had everyone thinking. Great book. I found it at the library, so if you can't get a copy elsewhere, try it there.