The Morrow Plot

by Sarah Wisseman

A body is found in a historic agricultural plot on a busy university campus. Is it a murder victim, an archaeological find, or some kind of prank?

17 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 24, 2012

About the author

Sarah Wisseman (a.k.a. Sally Underhill) grew up in Evanston, Illinois and Weston Massachusetts. She remembers being surrounded by books all her life, especially moldy old Penguin paperbacks (Rex Stout, Dorothy Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, Josephine Tey) that were fought over by her parents. Her mother was a weaver and avid reader, and her father, Thomas Underhill, was a lawyer who wrote mysteries and crossword puzzles. Her son, Nick, has adopted the pen name of his deceased grandfather ("Tom Underhill") and writes historical fantasy in northern Michigan.

Sarah hadn’t a clue that she wanted to be an archaeologist until she traveled to Israel right after her freshman year in college. There she ate felafel, fell in love with Jerusalem, camped illegally on Masada, and spent a month at the excavation of biblical Beersheba. Once hooked by archaeology, she returned for her Junior Year Abroad at Tel Aviv University, an experience that eventually inspired Book 1, The Dead Sea Codex. Books 2 and 3, Bound for Eternity and The Fall of Augustus, were inspired by Sarah's job as a curator in a dusty attic museum. Book 4, The House of the Sphinx, was the result of a trip to Egypt in 2005.

Reviews

[Gwen - Chew & Digest Books - · Rating 3 out of 5]

Has a lot of potential, but abruptly ends and leaves you wondering what exactly was the plot. The characters were entertaining, I could see myself reading a longer work with them.