JONAS
KIRK MYSTERIES
BY DICK SNYDER
MURDER
JONAS KIRK emerged from the sudden death of his parents as a bit of
a wanderer, traveling widely but settling into his home town, Woodland Park, MN. Uninterested in circulating with the movers and shakers of his community, he remains footloose until he becomes interested in murder, studying forensic evidence at Hamline University. Seeking to prove himself valuable to local Detective Chester Devlin, Kirk tries to provide thoughtful resolutions to homicide, guiding Devlin’s view of the evidence and offering summaries with a quip. Devlin can’t complain much. Kirk is good for his career.
MURDER
MURDER
HOW? WHEN? WHY?
MURDER
WHO?
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Amazon Review: “Jonas Kirk keeps us unaware of important clues until the right moment. I felt a bit like a fish nibbling away at the worm on the hook knowing I was about to be caught by the skillful landing—and ending. Just enough of a twist to surprise us without being outlandish or unbelievable. Well done!”
Jonas Kirk discovers murder on the Empire Builder, as quiet a train death as one might imagine. Even Kirk’s notable sense of a murder scene becomes muddled amidst his dreams and his new resolve to redefine himself. Lieutenant Chester Devlin becomes skeptical of Kirk’s cues, even as they seem to solve a homicide.
Woodland Park loves the acreage attached to the home of Miss Jane Oswald. Children explore it, play games on its turf. Their parents picnic on it and watch caretaker Arne Arneson manage it. When Miss Jane decides to sell the Acres, it sets off a chain reaction which leads to a deadly surprise.
In a casual visit to St. Mark’s Catholic Church, Kirk finds a corpse. The clues to solve murder in the pews lie in the confessional. Blocked by the conscience of a priest and the bluster of a bishop, Kirk and Lieutenant Devlin use both theology and civic seduction to find a killer.
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