A Mother & Daughter
Private Investigative Team
"LaPierre hits the bull's-eye, presenting even the most minor characters with equal
parts compassion and judgment against a gorgeous backdrop, and topping the
whole show off with a surprise ending."
--Kirkus Reviews (6/16/01)
In Keepers, Janet LaPierre introduces two fascinating new Port Silva characters, Patience and Verity Mackellar, a mother-daughter private investigative team. Patience, a policeman's widow, has kept her late husband's PI agency going as "Patience Smith, Investigations." Now Verity, seeking refuge from a troubled marriage, joins her mother to do the legwork. Finding lost pets and exposing unethical doctors leads to more difficult and dangerous work when their latest case, a lost child, calls for undercover work in a reclusive religious community. Amid the spectacular beauty of California's Lost Coast, two sets of mothers and daughters find their lives in jeopardy.
"I loved Keepers. Patience and Verity are gutsy, appealing, aware of their limitations and their strengths. They're the wry, no-nonsense women you want for friends. Patience is hardly patient, and Verity. . . well, she is working for a private eye!" --Susan Dunlap, author of Cop Out and No Immunity
 About the Author. Janet LaPierre is the author of Baby Mine and five other books in the Port Silva series, all critically acclaimed, any of which can stand alone as a fine literary mystery. She has been nominated several times for the Anthony and Macavity awards. She lives in Berkeley, California, and frequently spends time on her beloved north coast. For more, go to www.janetlapierre.com, including the first chapter and a short story about Patience and Verity.
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 Keepers
A Port Silva Mystery
Janet LaPierre
ISBN 1-880284-32-4
240 pages, paperback, $12.95
Publication Date: September 4, 2001
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