A Homicide within the Backyard Membership: Introducing Liz Phillips and Detective John Flynn

Who killed Sally Kahn? There hasn’t been a homicide in 15 years in tranquil, prosperous Hardington, Massachusetts. However somebody pushed a reasonably rich 65-year-old widow down her basement stairs, after which tried to make it appear like an accident. Two individuals will work – collectively and independently – to seek out the assassin. John Flynn, a retired Boston Police Division detective with an impressive report, will lead the official investigation. He’ll remedy the homicide regardless of the most effective efforts of Hardington’s police chief, who can’t abide the thought of a assassin on the free in his bucolic city and so who arrests the primary possible suspect. Liz Phillips has a life centered on her backyard and her backyard membership. Sally Kahn was considered one of her finest pals and it’s Liz who discovered the physique. However Liz is a lonely girl, her daughter married and dwelling distant, and her husband always on the highway. Liz will assist remedy the homicide by utilizing instinct, asking questions, and realizing her city. Their quest to seek out Sally Kahn’s killer will lead Liz Phillips and Detective John Flynn into an unfamiliar world of e-mail inboxes and wi-fi Web routers, hazardous waste disposal and the economics of tearing down homes to construct ‘McMansions’. Their search may even take them via an emotional panorama of adultery and the simmering resentment between ‘townies’ and the new-money prosperous.