In 1978, Margaret Thode, a high school senior from Rock Island, Illinois, was murdered. The act was vicious, personal, and vile. Her murder was never solved.
The crime haunted her girlfriend, Agatha Pruitt, who went on to become a research librarian at the University of Iowa. Agatha, now newly retired and back in Rock Island, re-opens the murder case long abandoned by the police. She herself meets an untimely demise shortly thereafter.
Agatha’s brother calls upon Bertrand Mc Abee to undertake a private investigation into his sister’s murder. Reluctantly, the aging Mc Abee consents. Once again, Mc Abee needs to rely on his longtime loosely connected comrades to assist his agency, ACJ, in bringing a killer to justice.
Mc Abee finds the thread that links the two murders and concludes that the murderer of both women is still at large, rattled by Agatha’s inquiries. As Mc Abee’s attention shifts to the 1978 cold case, among many obstacles he must deal with is the chief homicide investigator of Rock Island who detests Mc Abee for his relationship with Augusta Satin, his pillar of strength, confidant, and more at ACJ.
Leads are few, as Mc Abee must deal with an assortment of characters to gain a foothold. After many dead ends, he finally catches a break. But it puts him up against a professional killer mentored and protected by one of the world’s greatest powers.
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Dr. Joseph Mc Caffrey is a Professor Emeritus at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa. Years ago he was offered a job at a private investigation agency. He declined but the proposal renewed a long held objective of his to write a mystery novel around a character who actually took the offer he refused – thus, Bertrand Mc Abee. A Case of Closure is the 13th book in this series that began in 1997.
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