Jane Langton

In a mystery in which chapters alternate between past and present, the search for a mysterious lost church by Homer Kelly and his wife Mary is juxtaposed against events in 1868 Nashoba as a Civil War veteran struggles to put his life back together.

Murder strikes in the natural history museum of the University of Oxford, famed for its zoological specimens. PI Homer Kelly, a Harvard professor who is in town to give a lecture, will solve it.