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Steve Asher seems to
get into a lot of trouble for an eighth grade history teacher. Steve
is bright, inquisitive, and thinks he's much funnier than most other
people do. Steve is divorced, dating his ex-wife, surrounded by
eccentric, kooky friends and trying to be a darn good teacher. The
last thing he wants to do is solve murders.
Steve first appears in
Murder at Walden Pond discovering
a student's sister's body floating in the pond. He barely knows the
woman but when her diary is released to the media naming Steve as
her secret lover and the father of her unborn child Steve
reluctantly realizes he must do something to clear his name. The
second book in the Asher series is The
Mad Season and the third is
Crucial Judgment.
The fourth book in the series, Fatal Deception will be
out in 2004!.
"Asher joins Spencer, Scudder, Gunther, Kinsey and Carlotta as
welcome company."
David R. Surette, author of Malden
"Al Blanchard's
Steve Asher series brings to the crime genre one of the most
reluctant detectives in recent memory. Teacher-detective Asher is
full of human foibles and has a big heart for the student's in his
care. His curiosity about the unseen taps that place in all of us
that doesn't want to believe there's evil in the world. And Asher's
wry humor is a triumphant sneer at life's tragedy. Murder At Walden
Pond is written in a breezy style that evokes character through
dialogue. It also illuminates the peculiarities of New England
through a shrewd observer's deep laugh at those terrors that hover
just beyond consciousness."
Richard
Sawyer, author of The Priest of Anguish: D.H. Lawrence's Failure
at Intimacy.
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