Missed this 2002 book from the Jessie Arnold series. She is building a new cabin in place of the one burned by arson and a skeleton is discovered after the foundation hole is dug. It turns out to be related to an old serial killer series, and a new one. Jessie seems to have broken up with Alex Jensen.
Words I Had To Look Up:
gamine grin (pg. 236) -- A girl or woman of impish appeal.
Jessie runs across a body on the trail near her house while taking her dog team on a run after the first snow of the winter. Alex investigates, even Maxie shows up. Quite a few earthquakes take place. Jessie pushes some biker's motorcycle into the rough.
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...skift of new snow... (pg. 204) -- An old southern term for a light dusting of snow.
Jesie Arnold visits friends who are restoring a lighthouse, runs into a strange woman named Karen and...DANGER! Interesting lighthouse stuff, and a map!
Alex Jensen investigates the disappearance of a pilot from his crashed plane. I was a little confused by the ending. Who shot down the plane? Good book!
Maxie and Stretch, #4. At home in Homer, Alaska for a change Maxie talks to a stranger who is visiting her town. He ends up dead a few days later. A couple of weeks later a knock on her door leads her to meet the guy's sister. Who stays the night and disappears. What the heck! And what about the body in Maxie's attic, who is that?
A Maxine but not Stretch mystery. Maxie goes to Hawaii, without her dog, to help a friend Karen move. Stuff happens, nobody dies, we get a tour of Hawaii, and are told THREE times that Maxie keeps a shotgun in a secret compartment in her motor home. And her dead husband #2 keeps talking to her. But a pleasant little story, none the less. And there's a map.