Dark Nantucket Noon, Jane Langton
Dark Nantucket Noon, Jane Langton
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Dark Nantucket Noon
A Homer Kelly Mystery

Author: Jane Langton

Narrator: Derek Perkins

Unabridged: 8 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/19/2014


Synopsis

Transcendentalist scholar and former detective Homer Kelly agrees to defend a troubled young poet accused of killing her ex-lover’s new wife. To clear her name he must discover who set her up, and what happened during the two minutes of a Nantucket eclipse.

Reviews

Nero award winner I was happy with the flotilla of potential culprits at the beginning but unhappy with Kitty's happy demeanor leading up to a trial facing life imprisonment and having a happy go lucky time as it lost realism points there. It was cool to see hand drawn pictures by the author it broug......more

Goodreads review by V.

Are there many mystery writers as good at word crafting as Jane Langton? The first two chapters of the second Homer Kelly mystery, Dark Nantucket Noon, are as dark and rapturous a portrait of romantic solipsism as anything from Shirley Jackson. When Langton rhapsodizes over her much-beloved New Engl......more