Black Diamond In Black Diamond Holtzer has created a deeper complex work that retains and further enriches the characters of her protagonists computer maven Anneke Haagen and her lover police lieutenant Karl Ge
In Black Diamond, Holtzer has created a deeper, complex work that retains and further enriches the characters of her protagonists, computer maven Anneke Haagen and her lover, police lieutenant Karl Genesko It also brings back the enchanting student Zoe Kaplan, the Michigan Daily reporter who was introduced in Holtzer s last book, Bleeding Maize and Blue Zoe is enlisIn Black Diamond, Holtzer has created a deeper, complex work that retains and further enriches the characters of her protagonists, computer maven Anneke Haagen and her lover, police lieutenant Karl Genesko It also brings back the enchanting student Zoe Kaplan, the Michigan Daily reporter who was introduced in Holtzer s last book, Bleeding Maize and Blue Zoe is enlisted by a hapless fellow student for moral support in her family s dissension over a will In the process, the two young women come upon an intriguing series of letters written by the student s ancestor a well born lady brutally treated by her logging baron husband and a barely literate prostitute a camp follower of the logging crews , who find a common chord in their unhappy lives By unraveling the correspondence, with the help of computer knowledgeable Anneke, the two students unearth a tale of arson, murder, and lost treasure that reaches out to touch their own lives.
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Zoe Kaplan accompanies fellow dorm mate Clare Swann to her aunt's house where her aunt's estate is being divided up. Clare is given a box that her aunt's will says is connected to Black Diamond. Then a body is found in Clare's dorm room. Anneke Hagan is supposed to be the main character in this series but this book was much more about Zoe and Clare than Anneke. I liked that the story tied into the logging history of Michigan.
I really love the characters in her books
it's been quite a long time since i've read an Anneke Hagen mystery, so when i saw this on a list, i decided to check it out. There were quite a few surprises in this story - for example, the motive for the murder crept in from left field, although hints had been dropped. I like how Holtzer wove together the 19th and 20th century plots in a mostly non-intrusive way, although her decision to keep the 19th c parts realistic instead of romanticized led to those parts being rather brutal at points. [...]
I started reading this mystery series because the main character, Anneke Haagen, is a computer programmer, but there has been little of programming in the books so far. In fact, she's not even the main character in this book. That falls to Zoe Kaplan, an student reporter for the U. of Michigan paper, who was introduced in a previous book. A friend of hers finds her long-lost father dead in her dorm room, not long after she has inherited a mysterious box from her great-aunt, which box is now miss [...]
Mystery at the University of Michigan. Undergraduate sports writer works with 50 year old computer consultant and her finanee, a police officer. Involves nineteenth century lumber industry and violence. Clever story, fun to read.
Really like this series, discovered from a book discarded by my library.
Whew! Well done--I definitely got sucked in to this one.
Different, combines a historical account with a contemporary murder in Michigan.Uses Internet and lists sites.Pretty good.
The local detail is probably fun for people who know Ann Arbor and the historical back story is interesting, but the mystery is pretty generic.