Thirty-seven year old journalist, Connor Westphal, has relocated from San Francisco to Flat Skunk, a mining-turned-tourist town in the foothills of the Sierras, to start up her own weekly paper. Suddenly, dead bodies begin turning up in the most unusual places, setting Connor on a hunt for a killer. You might say Connor has a sixth sense when it comes to investigating...but she only has four of the usual five senses. Connor Westphal is deaf. But being hearing impaired doesn't stop Connor from pursuing the murderer. Without sound to distract her, she attends to subtleties that others overlook and ultimately unravels the mystery.
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1 primary bookConnor Westphal is a 1-book series first released in 1997 with contributions by Penny Warner.
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Barry Award Nominee for Best Paperback Original (1998), Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel (1998), Agatha Award Nominee for Best First Novel (1997)
This was a great mystery! Great characters, lots of suspects, location and the lead character is the deft owner of a 2 person newspaper (Gives her reason to ask questions & get involved).
I don't think this can be called a cozy mystery (Good Reads listed it as such). There were a few strong words in the book but didn't bother me!
280 Pages and 1st book in the series! Check it out, David N.
