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DANDELION MURDERS
by Rebecca Rothenberg
Mysterious Press, September 1994
293 pages
$18.95
ISBN: 0892965614


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A young Mexican farm worker is found dead in a ditch near a vineyard in Kaweah county near Riverside, California. Just before he died, he exhibited flulike symptoms, but the medical examiner declares heart failure to be the cause of death.

Claire Sharples, plant pathologist and microbiologist, transplanted from MIT to the central valley of California, is looking for a small field in which to conduct some experiments. She stops when she sees a field she thinks she can use, and stumbles upon another body facedown in a ditch.

Claire has to juggle her job dealing with the farmers who may or may not be spraying at inapprpriate times and the diseases that are attacking the stone fruits and nuts growing in the area and her relationship with Sam Cooper, her lover, who is a biologist working with Claire and whose young sons are spending the month.

Claire and Sam are having problems, so Sharples moves out of Sam's cabin and into the room of Jonathan Levine in a motel mostly inhabited by Mexican farm laborers. Levine was a reporter for the LA Free Press, and the man Claire found face down in the ditch.

This was an interesting mystery set in a part of California that one rarely hears about.

Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, December 2001

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