Description: Transcendentalist scholar and former detective Homer Kelly agrees to defend a troubled young poet accused of killing her ex-lover's new wife. To clear her name he must discover who set her up, and what happened during the two minutes of a Nantucket eclipse.
Brief description:
Jane Langton, an acclaimed author of mystery novels for adults and fantasy novels for young adults and children, was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 2018. Her series include the Hall Family Chronicles, Grace Jones series, and the Homer Kelly series. She earned degrees in astronomy and art history before she began writing novels and has set much of her fiction in the tight-knit world of New England academia.