Description: Maddy is unchallenged queen of the newspaper clipping "morgue" for the Herald-Union. But when young reporter Aubrey McGinty questions the conviction of the murder of a televangelist, the two begin a harrowing and dangerous search.
Brief description:
C. R. Corwin, a pen name of Rob Levandoski (1949-2008), was a newspaper reporter, teacher, and author from Ohio. He taught a workshop on "Writing That Novel" through the University of Akron and was a recipient of the Individual Artist Fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council. He wrote three novels under his own name, Going to Chicago, Serendipity Green, and Fresh Eggs, and three novels as C. R. Corwin in the Morgue Mama mystery series, Morgue Mama, Dig, and The Unraveling of Violeta Bell.
Review Quotes:
"An ambitious, young Ohio crime reporter teams up with the wise, old curmudgeon heading up the newspaper's morgue. Dolly Madison Sprowls, sixty-seven, thinks she'll be teaching newcomer Aubrey McGinty, twenty-four, a thing or two about proper Hannawa Herald-Union procedure when she comes looking for file clips on the Buddy Wing murder. But Aubrey immediately convinces the acerbic Morgue Mama to help her prove the televangelist wasn't poisoned by Sissy James, even though she confessed...Wry handling of the irrepressible Dolly and her takes on aging, youth in heat, and diner specials are very appealing indeed."
-- "Kirkus Reviews"