A dead father. A grieving daughter. Was it an accident, or was it murder?
Journalist-turned-sleuth Isabel Long finds herself facing some new challenges after solving her first case in her small Massachusetts town. Her relationship with the owner of the Rooster Bar has ended, and the police are insisting she must work for a licensed private investigator before going solo.
With encouragement from her sidekick—her ninety-two-year-old mother—Isabel finds work and a case. Chet Waters burned to death when his house caught fire and he was too drunk to escape. At least, that’s the official ruling. His daughter, who inherited his junkyard, believes he was murdered.
After doing some digging, Isabel creates a list of potential suspects, all with a grudge against Waters. Was his death an act of revenge? Isabel is about to find out . . .
“A savvy and appealing protagonist.” —Frederick Reiken, author of The Lost Legends of New Jersey
Praise for Chasing the Case
“A well crafted story with the perfect amount of tension, suspense and delicious intrigue.” —Joy Norstrom, author of Out of Play
“Will keep you guessing right to the end.” —Susan Roebuck, author of Rising Tide
Joan Livingston is the author of novels for adult and young readers, including the Isabel Long Mystery Series, featuring a longtime journalist who becomes an amateur P.I. solving cold cases in rural New England. She is currently writing the eighth in the series.
She draws upon her own experience as a longtime journalist to create Isabel Long, a gutsy, savvy widow who uses the skills she acquired in the business to solve what appear to be impossible cases. She also draws on her deep knowledge of rural Western Massachusetts to create realistic characters and settings — from country bars (where Isabel works part-time) to a general store’s backroom where gossipy old men meet — for the series and other novels set in that area.
An award-winning journalist, Joan started as a reporter paid by the inch covering the rural hilltowns of Western Massachusetts before working as a columnist and editor. (The experience helped to break a long writer’s block while she raised six children.) She went on to be editor-in-chief of award-winning newspapers in New Mexico and Massachusetts. But she has since left journalism to concentrate on her own writing. She lives in Shelburne Falls, a village in Western Massachusetts.
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