Pam Fox Boeken

Expecting a quiet Christmas with her aunt and professor uncle in western Massachusetts, artist Kate Corliss finds herself in the middle of a bitter town and campus conflict over development of a treasured green space.Then an activist colleague of her uncle's is found dead and a wave of vandalism rocks the campus.Spurred on by the victim's sister who claims psychic powers, Kate searches for the source of the violence as incidents pile up--a midnight prowler, poisoned mice and overwrought students.As Kate narrows in on the clues, she becomes another target and her struggle accelerates to a physical battle for her life.

The fifth of the Art of Murder mystery series, this book is set primarily in Canada's Algonquin Provincial Park. The main character is Kate Corliss, an artist who lives full-time aboard an RV. She makes friends with biochemist Simone, but strange events start happening after Kate helps Simone do biological field work. Kate has to sort out the truth from a maze of the other woman's lies. Joining forces with a park warden (ranger) as he deals with a suspicious outbreak of a new disease in bears, Kate discovers Simone is far from a friend--in fact, she's a killer. In a plot full of suspense and tension, Kate barely avoids becoming Simone's next victim. It's a close call. The book is a mystery with characteristics of a thriller, modified by Kate's strong connection to nature and her non-human fellow inhabitants of planet Earth.