Formaldehyde, Rooster: The Fourth Penny Weaver Mystery

Penny Weaver mystery #4

by Judy Hogan

Penny Weaver returns home after a relaxing summer, newly married to Kenneth Morgan, a detective inspector with the Swansea police. She learns: her daughter Sarah has left her husband and moved into Penny’s room; Ralph Andrews, an unsavory politician, has taken over their community group, ActNow; and the local particle board plant’s formaldehyde pollution is making people sick. After a forum with the Department of Air Quality Penny learns Andrews was killed by a massive dose of digitalis administered in his coffee, and her dear friend Cathy Clegg is suspected because she served the coffee.

213 pages, Paperback

Published December 1, 1916

About the author

Judy Hogan is a postmenopausal woman who loves to write, farm, think, and laugh. Her first two published mysteries, Killer Frost (2012) and Farm Fresh and Fatal (2013) were the sixth and seventh written in her Penny Weaver series, and she now begins a new project of publishing the other thirteen mysteries through Hoganvillaea Books, beginning with the first one, The Sands of Gower, written in 1991. She’s also a published poet and non-fiction writer. She taught “The Roadmap to Great Literature for New Writers” classes in the Durham County Library, 1981-90. When her community is threatened by injustice and/or pollution, she’s an activist, like Penny Weaver. She lives and farms in Moncure, N.C., near the Haw and Deep Rivers.
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