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    LIVING WITNESS

    Kirkus Reviews
    February 2009

    Evolution: fact, opinion or motive for murder?

    Annie-Victoria Hadley, the only member of the Snow Hill school
    board joining former chairman Henry Wackford in a lawsuit denying
    advocates of Intelligent Design their say, is clobbered with something
    blunt, like a baseball bat. As she hovers between life and death,
    it's assumed that vehement creationists had a go at her. Bypassing
    the publicity-hungry Pennsylvania State Police, Gary Albright, the
    Snow Hill Police Chief, calls in ex-FBI authority Gregor Demarkian,
    the Armenian-American Poirot, who quickly learns that just about
    everyone in town was within batting range of Annie-Vic's house when
    she was coshed. Lining up for Intelligent Design are current board
    chair Franklin Hale, board member Alice McGuffie, Alice's bully of a
    daughter and Chief Albright. The evolutionists include Miss Marbledale,
    the schoolteacher, and Judy Cornish and her friend Shelley Niederman,
    newcomers comfortably settled in the posh new development outside
    Snow Hill until they're also dispatched, presumably by an unappeased
    creationist. Straddling the debate is Rev. Nick Frapp, who insists
    that he's neutral since his flock's children attend his academy,
    not the public school. But the more Gregor learns of the town's
    movements and prejudices, the more certain he is that death has come
    from another direction.

    Haddam (Cheating at Solitaire, 2008, etc.), who usually has more on
    her mind than mere murder, defeats the anti-scientists with fact as
    well as tact. If another "monkey trial" comes up, the evolutionists
    should ask her to write their brief.

    Publication Date: 4/14/2009 0:00:00

    Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur

    Stage: Adult

    ISBN: 978-0-312-38086-1

    Price: $$25.95

    Author: Haddam, Jane
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