by Harmonye Yonge
When Minnie Mullins sold her deceased husband's barbershop to Howard, a personable young stranger, little did she realize the portent of his sudden appearance in her community. "He is either looking for something, or hiding from something," she told her friend Victoria the day after she met him. Both women were to be surprised and amazed at how accurate Minnie's guess would turn out to be. Everywhere Jake goes something happens to get him drawn into resolving a mystery, even worse than when he was a cop. Like the Tennessee country music icon and his religious counterpart. Jake came to Knoxville to visit his "Dutch Uncle," only to find him incarcerated for murder. His investigation turns up other murders as well Albia is a typical mid-western county seat town of four thousand people, minus one. When an early blizzard finally relinquishes what it is hiding, the area will never be the same again. The snow-covered secret not only rewrites the community's history, but determines its future as well, and all the residents are affected. Zacharias Popek drives in to visit his favorite clergyman, only to find him in the hospital, and stumbles into a series of events which takes all of his deduction capabilities, plus his physical abilities, to solve the mysteries-while staying alive.ABOUT THE AUTHORHarmonye Yonge, a writer who is an astute observer of the human condition, and an editor and publisher with a background in police work, business management and college teaching, produces stories based on real life experiences.(2010, paperback, 382 pages)
