Mountain Mourning

Squidoo.com suggests this book as "a good mystery story to pass the time on the auto train." In Mountain Mourning, the sixth in Annis Ward Jackson's Rachel Myers Murder Mystery series, the amateur sleuth receives a letter and a packet of information from a man she has only met twice and who has recently died under questionable, if not suspicious, circumstances. Grant Taylor, a teacher at a private prep school, had become curious about the mysterious disappearance thirty years before of a young female teacher at another exclusive private academy and he pleads for Rachel's help. After Myers decides to continue Taylor's search, she finds the young teacher's remains in a lonely grave off the Blue Ridge Parkway. The "reluctant" detective probes her list of suspects and unveils their motives. Then comes the task of deciding which one is the murderer. Myers has never been more challenged or more perplexed as she confronts a steadily dwindling list of suspects. The real murderer is as much a shock to Myers as it will be to the reader.