Murder In Jigtime
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About the Book
Murder in Jigtime
Jacqueline hires Carter Kane, private investigator and owner of Kane Research and Investigations, to help her solve the puzzles and find her father's murderer. The trail of clues leads Carter from California to Hawaii and reveals a mysterious artist, a twenty-year old murder, a threat by the underworld yakuza, an art scam, and a scramble to assemble a priceless collection of gold Japanese figurines missing since World War II.
Carter Kane is also a gamesplayer, a puzzle creator as well as solver, and delights in unraveling the various threads connecting the seemingly unrelated parts of the total puzzle. She is still coming to terms with the loss of her husband and is able to help Jacqueline deal with the death of her father. Aided by her secretary, Savannah Scott, and friend and retired San Francisco police chief, Sam Post, she successfully solves each puzzle and uncovers the murderer and the answers to all of Shigeru Kinama's games.
About the Author
Merritt Alden Booster grew up in Honolulu, Hawaii, and now lives in Santa Rosa, California, with her husband and three daughters. She is the Gifted and Talented Education Coordinator, and Assistant for Public Relations in the Rincon Valley School District in Santa Rosa. She is also currently the area representative to the California Association for the Gifted. "Wills Alden" represents two maiden names, as Merritt writes in collaboration with her mother, Sara Wills Alden. In addition to Murder in Jigtime, they have written Promise Twice, and are currently working on L’Alibi Baby. In all three novels the solution is found by Carter Kane, private investigator, who is also known as an author of crosswords, and a collector of strange puzzles of all kinds.