What They Yearn For, Volume 2

by Victor M. Depta

In the venerable tradition of elderly lady sleuths―Jane Marple, Maud Silver, Sharon McCone, Mrs. Pollifax―we at Blair Mountain Press are pleased to introduce Dr. Ethel Gooch (we like the odd and slightly uneuphonious name), a professor of English at a university in eastern Kentucky. She and Aubrey, a local student, are intrigued by an apparent suicide of the wife of the English Department chair. Ethel’s defining statement is None of you killed her, but each of you is responsible for her death. Clearing up that mystery is the source of the novel. Ethel retires to San Francisco where Aubrey―her student friend and his friend, Arne―are students at San Francisco State University. Through Arne, they are introduced to Amahl, a wealthy Lebanese, and there the second intrigue begins. Amahl is celibate and spiritually intense, which is in sharp contrast to his immense wealth and his love for Aubrey. The novel centers around who, exactly, wants him dead. The book is called What They Yearn For (a nice old-fashioned word, “yearn”). In Volume 1 are the first two mysteries, The Lady Without a Purse and How Many Miles to Babylon. Volume 2, includes Where to Run, Where to Hide and The Temple of Scattered Lives, which involve devil worshipers and a nursery.

320 pages, Unknown Binding

Published February 25, 2021