Jane Langton creëert verhalen die duiken in de ingewikkelde verbanden tussen mensen en plaatsen, waarbij ze haar verhalen vaak plaatst in de sfeervolle landschappen van Massachusetts. Haar schrijven wordt gekenmerkt door een scherp inzicht in de menselijke psychologie en een onderscheidende verhalende stijl. Langton beweegt zich soepel tussen genres, van boeiende mysteries tot aangrijpende kinderboeken, waarbij ze altijd haar unieke stem behoudt. Haar vermogen om levendige personages en meeslepende omgevingen te creëren, verstevigt haar reputatie als een belangrijk literair figuur.
As part-time detective Homer Kelly sets off on his search for answers to the death of a young priest, who left nothing behind but an inauspicious and cryptic note, he finds a crime far more sinister and troubling. Reprint.
It all started when Georgie, hardly more than a wisp of thistledown, discovered she could jump down twelve steps in two big graceful bounds. Next, to her great delight, she learned that jumping from the porch and floating as high as the rooftop was possible too. So when the mysterious Canada goose came to her window one night it seemed only natural to climb onto his back and go off with him to learn how to really fly.Jane Langton spins a marvelous fantasy that wild delight all who dream that someday, somehow, we will magically find ourselves aloft and suddenly able to fly!
When Harvard's Memorial Hall is bombed, the shattering of its huge rose windows resounds throughout the campus; but when a corpulent and headless corpse is found amid the debris, and the big, beloved chorus leader, Hamilton Dow, cannot be located, more than the peace and quiet of an illustrious university is disturbed. Is the corpse that of the missing conductor?