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Ellen Hart was named the 2017 MWA Grand Master, the most distinguished lifetime achievement award offered in the mystery community.
In FEVER IN THE DARK by MWA Edgars Grand Master Ellen Hart, Fiona and Annie return home from their one year anniversary trip to discover that their poignant proposal video has been posted on YouTube and has garnered hundreds of thousands of hits. The video is on the verge of going viral, and there's enormous media interest in Fiona and Annie, as their fame comes just on the heels of the Supreme Court's decision to legalize gay marriage across the country. As some of the attention starts to turn vicious, Fiona pulls in an old friend, private investigator Jane Lawless, to help separate the harmless threats from the potentially harmful.
As the media storm continues to grow, Fiona revels in the attention, but Annie is furious. Fiona has always known that Annie has secrets, but her newfound notoriety threatens to bring Annie's past straight to their door. And then, when a murder occurs and Annie and Fiona are both suspects, it's up to Jane to prove their innocence...although the more she learns, the more she starts to wonder whether they actually are innocent.
Ellen Hart will once again captivate readers with her trademark smart, clever, mystery plotting and rich, human characters.
Author Notes
Mystery author Ellen Hart was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in August 1949. She received a B. A. in Theology from the Ambassador College in Pasadena, California. She writes the Jane Lawless and the Sophie Greenway series. Five of the Jane Lawless books have won the Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Mystery. She has also won the Minnesota Book Award for Best Crime Fiction twice. She currently lives in Minneapolis with her life partner.
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Reviews (4)
Publisher's Weekly Review
Series fans will best appreciate Hart's 24th Jane Lawless mystery set in Minneapolis (after 2015's The Grave Soul). Fiona, an old friend of Jane's, and her wife, Annie, start receiving unwanted attention when their marriage-proposal video goes viral a year after their wedding. The strain of being media darlings is further complicated by Fi getting creepy mash notes from an anonymous stranger. The one benefit to the exposure is that Annie's estranged family attempt to reconnect with her. However, Annie has a secret from her past that involves her psychiatrist brother-in-law, Noah Foster, which she wants to keep secret. When Noah is murdered-he's poisoned and shot-Annie is a prime suspect. But so is Noah's mistress, who was also one of his patients. Jane does some sleuthing, but she's more focused on running her restaurant business than solving the central crime. A subplot involving Jane's ex, Julia, is a welcome distraction in an entry that lacks tension, despite a bomb scare and suspicious behavior by various supporting characters. Agent: Deborah Schneider, Gelfman Schneider Literary. (Jan.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Booklist Review
Hart's (The Old and Deep, 2014) twenty-first Jane Lawless novel finds lesbian PI and restaurateur Lawless helping her friends, Fiona and Annie, after their marriage proposal was somehow recorded and posted, going viral on YouTube and triggering both support and hatred. Since their wedding closely follows the Supreme Court's legalization of gay marriage, the resultant media storm creates havoc and friction in their lives as invasion of privacy becomes the norm, and they become divided about the news coverage. A dark element of dread and foreboding hangs over the story, foreshadowing a murder as Annie's secret past begins to emerge, and both she and her wife become suspects. Now Lawless must prove their innocence. Though some Lawless fans may miss the wise-ass, over-the-top humor of irresistible sidekick Cordelia Thorne, there are hints that she will return. On the upside, Hart was inspired this time to write a tightly plotted, exceptionally engrossing mystery, one of the strongest in a popular series.--Scott, Whitney Copyright 2016 Booklist
Kirkus Review
A video gone viral forces a couple to confront one member's past and decide whether it means they can still have a future together.Cordelia Thorn is no stranger to drama. Her friend Jane Lawless is a part-time private eye who's relied on Cordelia's help in a number of cases. Though Cordelia's job is to run Minneapolis' Thorn Lester Playhouse, she's drawn to mysteries like the one involving her stage manager, Fiona McGuy. Fi's just returned from a trip celebrating her one-year anniversary with her wife, Annie Johnson, and the two are shocked when they're greeted by strangers at their house. Fi's sweet but very personal proposal to Annie has somehow gone viral, and folks are lined up to praise or protest the happy couple. Though Fi doesn't understand the big deal, Annie is horrified. So Fi asks Cordelia and Jane to try to figure out which emails they've received are from admiring new friends and which from frightening foes. When Annie's estranged family appears out of nowhere, Fi starts to get a better idea why Annie's been so afraid of the video's internet reach. Apparently Annie's been all but hiding from her family, and their arrival may be the prelude to a day of reckoning with one family member with whom Annie had a bad run-in in the past. All the while Jane is investigating Annie's and Fi's lives, her own life seems to be about to change, as an old flame returns, determined to rewrite her story with Jane. Hart (The Grave Soul, 2015, etc.) connects the events of the main story to a brief opening chapter presenting a savage murder, leading readers up to the attack and beyond while revealing the potential murderer's motive. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Library Journal Review
A YouTube video of Fiona and Annie's marriage proposal is about to go viral, but Annie is terrified that her hidden past will surface. When Fiona starts receiving threatening letters, she hires Jane Lawless to investigate. Soon someone is murdered and Annie disappears. Well-developed characters retain their allure in Hart's 24th series outing (after The Grave Soul). © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
