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A Bond with Death
by Bill Crider
A mostly enjoyable mystery with a disappointing ending.
Bill Crider's third Sally Good mystery seems too good to be true. Professor Sally Good chairs the English Department at Hughes Community College in Texas. The school where she teaches has a collection of faculty, variously dedicated, disgruntled, and ditsy. Sally’s husband, who died some years back, was distantly related to Sarah Good, one of the women hanged as a witch during the Salem witch trials. And when many people involved with the school receive an e-mail suggesting that Sally is a witch, things start to heat up. Who could have done this? And why? There is a former faculty member who thinks Sally was behind the move to force him out of the college, and there is another teacher who had hoped to be appointed to head the department before Sally arrived on the scene. While Sally is looking into the e-mail mystery, she finds that one of her friends actually is a witch, or rather is involved with the Wicca religion.
To complicate matters, there is a bond up for a vote, that would supply needed funds for the school, and among the opponents of the bond are some religious fanatics who fan the flames of witchcraft accusations. Then the disgruntled former faculty member is murdered.
All this hums along nicely with splashes of humor for good measure. At the end, however, the author pulls a murderer out of left field, and the reader want to yell, “No fair.” So you can give this mostly enjoyable murder mystery a try, but remember, I warned you about the ending.
Title: A Bond with Death
Author: Bill Crider
Publisher: St. Martin’s Minataur
ISBN: 0312322968
Review written by: William Keogan
Reviewer's Rating:7
Reader's Rating: 0
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