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Different Paths

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"A sprightly tale and a surprising ending, along with Clemens's trademark quirky characters."—Kirkus Reviews

When dairy farmer Stella Crown's friend, veterinarian Carla Beaumont, is car-jacked it's just the first of a rash of vicious attacks on local business women. Then three more women—a truck driver, a minister, and a personal trainer—are targeted for vandalism and theft. But the community is shaken to the core when the kind-hearted Dr. Peterson is found murdered in her office.

Worried that she and her farmhand Lucy might be next in line, Stella makes it her job to find the connection between the victims, get the good Detective Willard to stop the violence, and track down the killer.

Meanwhile, Stella's boyfriend Nick insists on joining her on the farm. Will he, with his newly diagnosed MS, be able to protect her? Does she even want him to?

As she investigates, Stella finds much that doesn't seem right in her usually quiet town. Between her suspicions of steroids at the local gym, irate patients at the doctor's office, and Carla's brand-new boyfriend, Stella's not sure where to focus her attentions. But focus she must—or more women will die.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 9, 2008
      When someone assaults veterinarian Carla Beaumont and hijacks her truck in Clemens’s engaging fifth mystery to feature Pennsylvania dairy farmer Stella Crown (after 2007’s The Day Will Come
      ), it appears the perp was after drugs. But Stella is quick to see a pattern after other females in male-dominated professions are subjected to various attacks, one of them fatal. Less to her credit, Stella tends to judge people too hastily, as she does Carla’s new boyfriend, whom she meets in the hospital where Carla is recuperating. Stella’s also quick to jump to conclusions about any number of suspects. As with previous books in the series, the chief attraction rests in Stella’s relationships with such people as her boyfriend, Nick, and her farmhand, Lucy, as well as in the daily trials, tribulations and pleasures of running a small dairy farm. Stella may not get high marks for her sleuthing, but she’s persistent, loyal and determined, qualities that should continue to attract new readers.

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