Not of This Fold

Zusatztext 80427343 Informationen zum Autor Mette Ivie Harrison is the author of the Linda Wallheim mystery series, as well as numerous books for young adults. She holds a PhD in German literature from Princeton University and is a nationally ranked triathlete. A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, she lives in Utah with her husband and five children Klappentext The fourth installment in Mette Ivie Harrison's nationally bestselling Linda Wallheim mystery series! set in Mormon Utah! explores the effects of alienation! immigration! and extortion from the inner workings of the Mormon church. Draper! Utah: Now that all five of her sons have left home! Mormon bishop's wife Linda Wallheim has quite a bit of time on her hands. She has befriended Gwen Ferris! a woman in her ward who is quickly losing faith in the church. Gwen has a calling in Draper's local "Spanish ward!" which is made up of both legal and undocumented immigrants who Gwen feels don't always get the support they need from their bishop. When Gabriela Gonzalez! an undocumented mother of three! is found strangled at a gas station! Gwen decides the police aren't doing enough and decides to track down the killer herself. Fearing for her young friend's safety! Linda reluctantly joins her! but what they find during their vigilante investigation may put them both in danger. Chapter 1   Every year on the Friday night before Halloween, we put on a ward Trunk or Treat in the gym for the whole neighborhood, Mormon and not. It was organized by the Primary Presidency, but the bishopric always manned the activity booths in costume. This year, Kurt and I were dressed up as Frankenstein’s monster and the Bride of Frankenstein, costumes we constantly had to explain to children who were more accustomed to comic-book heroes and Disney characters. We also enforced a rule that the children only received candy if they could compose a limerick, which we demonstrated first.      The first counselor and his wife, Tom and Verity deRyke, wrapped in long strips of cloth as mummies, were running a variation on musical chairs, and I could tell they were enjoying it. The Primary children loved Verity and Tom, the honorary grandparents in the ward to families whose eldest generation had passed away or weren’t able to be with them.      The second counselor, Brad Ferris, was sporting vampire fangs, black capes, and drips of blood down the sides of his chin, and had set up a booth where kids could make a witch or a ghost out of candy pieces. Brad had become second counselor just over a year ago. At the time, his wife, Gwen, had been emotionally fragile, struggling terribly with her infertility diagnosis and the tragic history behind it. I’d hoped that she had come out of her shell lately. She’d been exercising and had put muscle on her petite frame, but the fact that she wasn’t here and hadn’t been to church in a couple of months made me worry that something had gone wrong. Was it that there were too many children around, reminding her that she and Brad couldn’t have a “forever family?”      Then I saw her, with three small children and a generously figured Hispanic woman trailing after them. The children were adorable, the youngest apparently having just learned to walk. The oldest, a girl, was dressed as Wonder Woman, the younger boy as Captain America, and the baby in Gwen’s arms as a peapod. Gwen seemed comfortable with them, leaning over to whisper to them something about what to do next, then laughing with their mother. It surprised and pleased me.       “And what are your names?” I asked when they came over to us.      The oldest girl informed me that she was Lucia, her brother was Manuel, and their baby sister, with the biggest, darkest eyes I’d ever seen, was Amanda.      I helped them through inventing a limerick about superheroes, and then passed out the c...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Mette Ivie Harrison
• Editore: Soho Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 04.12.2018
• EAN: 9781616959425
• ISBN: 978-1-61695-942-5
• Pagine: 360
• Dimensioni: 146 mm x 216 mm x 29 mm