Pernicious Poll: The Thirteenth Penny Weaver Mystery

by Judy Hogan

The North Carolina state government has passed a new law that requires voters to show a picture ID. Its real aim is to make it harder for elderly black citizens to vote. Penny Weaver and her friends are working to assist elderly voters to get a state-issued ID. Meantime the lead counsel for the NAACP court challenge to the new law, Becka Cagle is murdered on her doorstep. Penny's friend Sammie learns that her grandson Seb and Sammie's niece Naomi had discovered the joys of sex at ages fourteen and thirteen. Penny, Sammie, and Lt. Lilly Bates of the Sheriff's Department work to solve the murder. While the three women do their own investigation, their friend Kate takes over the role of the dead Becka in the NAACP case, and Penny's husband Kenneth guards Kate. The parents of the teens come together to make new rules for the teens, but Penny ends up keeping her grandson Seb when his parents are busy, and Seb finds it easy to outwit her.

170 pages, Paperback

Published May 16, 2020

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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