Search -
The Dandelion Murders (Claire Sharples, Bk 2)
The Dandelion Murders - Claire Sharples, Bk 2 Author:Rebecca Rothenberg Alpine hulsea--a yellow dandelion-like flower--doesn't grow in the huge citrus groves and vineyards of the San Joaquin Valley. It belongs in the High Sierras and not on the corpse of the dead reporter that microbiologist Claire Sharples finds in a valley drainage ditch. Angular, prickly, transplanted New Englander Claire is more interested in sa... more »ving her rocky romance with stone-fruit expert Sam Cooper than in solving the murder... until two migrant workers are also found drowned in this water-scarce region. Now Claire's scientific curiosity has her snooping into California's agribusiness, where tempers run hot, laborers toil for seventy hours a week, and common pesticides are lethal at three or four drops. But her gut instincts are soon telling her that questions about tiny alpine hulsea may unearth the identity of a killer... or dig her own grave.« less