{"product_id":"death-train-to-boston-isbn-9780553580556","title":"Death Train to Boston","description":"Autumn 1908 finds Caroline Fremont Jones and her partner in love and work, Michael Kossoff, traveling incognito, riding the rails from San Francisco to Boston. The railroad hired the sleuthing couple to investigate a series of accidents. But before they can solve the mystery, they become victims of the worst mishap yet when their train blows up near Salt Lake City. Was it a callous act of vandalism-or something even more sinister? Michael isn't about to let his injuries slow down his search for answers...or for Fremont, who has not been seen since the accident-dead or alive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFortunately, the badly injured Fremont was rescued from the train's wreckage. But her unlikely savior, the leader of a breakaway Mormon sect, has hidden her away in his remote wilderness community. It seems that Melancthon Pratt has big plans for Fremont...not the least of which is for her to become his sixth wife. Now Fremont's only hope is that her genius for artifice will help her devise an escape. That is, unless Michael, shadowed by an old nemesis and a mysterious stranger, can find her before a heartless killer claims both their lives.Award-winning author of \u003cb\u003eEmperor Norton's Ghost\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With her  independent spirit  and youthful  determination,  Miss Jones is virtually   invincible.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It's Day's light and romantic touch with her spunky heroine and the men in her life that makes this series sparkle.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Swift and upbeat...the ongoing adventures of the sharply defined and appealing cast of characters carry the lively story.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Jones is instantly captivating, a spunky young woman who wants to make her own way and is more than capable of doing \u003cbr\u003eso....Engaging.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eWinston-Salem Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Strange Files Of Fremont Jones\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMacavity Award Winner for Best First Mystery Novel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the most refreshing heroines to appear in years...Day rates top marks for her crisp, witty dialogue...cleverly conceived plot; and darkly menacing touches.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFire And Fog\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"This delightful mystery begins with a bang...and things get more and more complicated from there.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Bohemian Murders\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A special treat. Highly recommended.\" \u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmperor Norton's Ghost\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A lively and atmospheric mixture of sharply observed detail and high drama.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Amazon.com\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDeath Train To Boston\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The opening scene is electrifying....An extremely appealing book...Great fun to read.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Book Report\u003c\/i\u003eDianne Day spent her early years in the Mississippi Delta before moving to San Francisco and the Bay Area. Fremont Jones has appeared in four previous mysteries: \u003cb\u003eThe Strange Files of Fremont Jones\u003c\/b\u003e, which won the Macavity Award for Best First Novel, and three bestselling sequels. Day has now completed her sixth Fremont Jones mystery, \u003cb\u003eBeacon Street Mourning\u003c\/b\u003e, and is working on a novel of suspense based on the life of Clara Barton.THIS MUST BE how it feels to come back from the dead, I thought as I struggled to open my eyes. Every inch of my body, especially my uncooperative eyelids, felt heavy as lead. I heard a sound, a plaintive moan, and only when another voice spoke did I realize the moan had come from me.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe other voice said, \"Awake, unfortunate woman!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e That voice and its biblical-sounding manner of command were unfamiliar, so alien to my ears in both language and tone that fear coursed coldly through me and broke my leaden bonds. I opened my eyes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImmediately I wished I had not. I was lying stark naked in a strange bed, in a strange room, with a man I had never seen before in my life standing over me. I had not the slightest idea in the world how I'd come to be here.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhatever this was, whatever I had done now, whatever horrible mistake I'd made, I couldn't face it. I closed my eyes and turned my head away. That is, I tried to turn my head, I meant to turn it--but the pain was so severe, and my head was so heavy, that I doubt I moved at all. Instead I was sinking. Everything went black, and I was glad of it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGoddammit!\" Michael Kossoff swore aloud, adding several more obscene words under his breath for good measure. As the sky stopped spinning overhead, he began to assess himself and the situation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis collarbone was broken on the left side. He was certain of that much, due to the pain that ensued when he tried to move his left arm, and where the pain was located. He lifted his right hand and felt his face, which appeared to be intact, beard included, though he had the very devil of a headache. Without looking down he moved first one leg and then the other. Flexed his ankles; wiggled his toes inside his shoes. Everything seemed in working order except for the shoulder, and that damned throbbing in his head.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe supposed he could have been unconscious for a while; in fact, on further thought he believed he must have been, because of the initial dizziness combined with a certain sluggishness of mind. He wasn't yet entirely sure what had happened. He did know he was in no way ready to sit up, so he closed his eyes and put his ears to work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael heard--and felt--a vast silence around him; the unnerving sort of silence that one notices when for days there has been steady sound in the background, then suddenly the reassurance of that steady sound is gone. Yes: The comforting, lulling hum and clack of the train moving swiftly over its tracks was now missing. He listened harder: Within the disturbing hush there were people crying, moaning, sobbing--and for one terrifying, irrational moment Michael wondered if he had finally died and gone to hell.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Where I belong, several times over,\" he muttered, aware even as he did so that Fremont would not agree with this last point.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFremont. . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlong with her name, her face filled Michael's mind: the murky depths of her green eyes that always made him wonder what she was thinking; the quirk of her mouth; that dark reddish hair as stubbornly straight as her narrow, uncorseted backbone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael lay for a moment not caring where he was, just contemplating, with an aching pleasure that was quite different from the other aches in his body, how much he loved Fremont Jones. Even better--indeed the cause of a sudden, revivifying warmth that coursed through his whole body--was knowing that she also loved him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut then, in the blink of an eye, all pleasure vanished as he cried aloud, \"Oh, my God! Fremont!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSomeone kept poking and prodding at me, when all I wanted was to sleep. If I moved, it would hurt--that was my one thought. Yet this poking about on my person had to stop.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs forcefully as I could, I said, \"Stop that!\" And then, with the greatest reluctance, I opened my eyes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Just what do you think you're doing?\" I asked the strange man who was examining my anatomy as minutely as if I had been a specimen for dissection in a laboratory. Perhaps I was. Perhaps I had died, or some ill-informed person had thought I was dead and shipped my body off. Dimly I recalled knowing a woman that same thing had happened to. . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut no, on second thought that was not likely, for most definitely I lay not on some cold, scientific-looking metal trolley but in a bed, on a mattress that might have been comfortable had I not, overall, hurt so much.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I am examining you to determine the nature and extent of your injuries,\" the man said gruffly. He may have intended to smile, but obviously he did it so seldom that his face had forgotten the corners of the mouth were supposed to turn up.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I will thank you to desist and give me back my clothes,\" I said, injecting a note of outrage into my voice as best I could. Then I crossed my arms over my breasts with great difficulty. I would have drawn up my legs, but I could not; they refused to cooperate with me. Nor could I raise my head. I said, \"You are a doctor, I presume?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"No,\" he replied, making no move whatever to cover my nakedness, \"I am not a doctor. I am your savior.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMore biblical language. \"A likely story. Savior, my foot!\" I scoffed, but without conviction. Perhaps I really was dead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy mind refused to work with its usual efficiency. I wanted very much to escape back into unconsciousness, where my body might rest and my thoughts attain oblivion. Yet my brain, which is undoubtedly my most reliable organ, argued against that. For one thing, judging by his odd vocabulary this man could be a dangerous fanatic; certainly he was no savior. Second, around fanatics one had better stay awake--therefore I would.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI strained my peripheral vision in an attempt to ascertain if there might be someone else in the room who could assist me. Preferably another woman. But I couldn't see around my fanatical savior. He was a large man, standing so close that he completely filled my visual field.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"You should be grateful,\" he said. \"I could have left you there to die.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A likely story,\" I said again. But I wondered, Left me where?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"You have a serious head wound and were bleeding profusely.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Do you always completely undress people who have wounds upon their heads?\" I inquired, emphasizing the final word. Speaking at all required tremendous effort. I was trying hard to be my usual insouciant self, but I was a long way from hitting the mark.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe turned his back without response and moved away from the bed. I forced my head to roll to one side, intending to scan the room, and immediately became nauseous beyond my ability to control. 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