Elected for Death

AMONG RICH NORTHEASTERN SUBURBANITES, POLITICS CAN BE POISON.

Hancock, Connecticut — a historic enclave of wealth and conservatism — is in the final heat of a three-way mayoral election when long-shot candidate Ivan Deakin takes a sip of cyanide-laced water and is retired to the morgue.

His murder exacerbates an already fierce controversy over proposed changes in rules governing the landmark status of local real estate — changes that would drastically alter property values. Like everyone else, amateur sleuth Susan Henshaw suspects unusually dirty politics and when her husband — who's running for town council — is tarred in the general smearing, Susan gets serious about finding Ivan's killer. But the possibilities are myriad, for Ivan Deakin was a political loose cannon, and the murkiness of his business deals is matched only by the notoriety of his romantic adventures... .

• Author
• Valerie Wolzien

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 278

• Series
• Susan Henshaw

• Publisher
• Fawcett

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780449149591

• Characters
• Susan Henshaw, Jed Henshaw, Ivan Deakin

• Settings
• Hancock, Connecticut

• Genres
• mystery, fiction

• Release date
• 1996