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A Dismal Thing to Do

by (author) Charlotte MacLeod

read by William Dufris

Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Initial publish date
Aug 2016
Category
General
  • CD-Audio

    ISBN
    9781531805876
    Publish Date
    Aug 2016
    List Price
    $14.99
  • CD-Audio

    ISBN
    9781799737810
    Publish Date
    Jul 2020
    List Price
    $21.99

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Description

After witnessing a strange explosion, Janet becomes a murderer’s next target. Janet Rhys is driving through the backwoods of Canada when she sees the truck ahead of her lose control, smash into a snow bank, and flip sideways, completely blocking the road. Springing to action, she darts into a nearby barn, searching for something to use to rescue the person trapped inside. When she hears an explosion, Janet returns to find the truck is nothing but smoking wreckage, and the driver has stolen her car.

Janet takes shelter in an abandoned house, and is waiting for help to come when the truck driver’s accomplices set fire to her hideout. Just before she is engulfed in flames, she leaps through a window and escapes into the snow. The killers think their witness is dead, and if Janet doesn’t move quickly, they will be right.

About the authors

Charlotte MacLeod (1922-2005) was an internationally bestselling author of cozy mysteries. Born in Canada, she moved to Boston as a child, and lived in New England most of her life. After graduating from college, she made a career in advertising, writing copy for the Stop & Shop Supermarket Company before moving on to Boston firm N. H. Miller & Co., where she rose to the rank of vice president. In her spare time, MacLeod wrote short stories, and in 1964 published her first novel, a children's book called Mystery of the White Knight. 

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