Missing Susan - Softcover

I particularly enjoy mysteries that allow me to play the
armchair traveler, following along as the detective visits famous
sites or interesting corners of the world. Sharyn McCrumb's
MISSING SUSAN is one of the best examples of this kind of
mystery. In MISSING SUSAN, Elizabeth MacPherson, forensic
anthropologist and sleuth, decides to go on a tour of England's
most famous murder sites. She isn't aware that Rowan Rover, the
tour guide and Jack the Ripper expert, has been hired to kill a
tour member -- the obnoxious young heiress Susan Cohen.
Throughout the story, we are treated to a travelogue of England's
more gruesome tourist spots, as well as Sharyn McCrumb's dryly
humorous prose. MISSING SUSAN inspired me to take the Jack the
Ripper tour myself -- and although I didn't encounter any murders
other than those of Jack the Ripper, the atmosphere was decidedly
more intriguing due to this book.

--Malinda Lo, Editorial Assistant

Sharyn McCrumb is an internationally acclaimed New York Times bestselling author whose work has been honored with all five of the major awards in crime fiction (Edgar, Agatha, Anthony, Macavity, and Nero)—with two Best Appalachian Novel awards. She is the creator of the Ballad series, which began with If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O; and her satirical mystery series featuring forensic anthropologist Elizabeth MacPherson. McCrumb lives in the Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains, less than a hundred miles from the Smoky Mountain valley where her ancestors settled in 1790.