Buried Stuff: A Jane Wheel Mystery: 4 (Jane Wheel Mysteries 4)

An avid antique collector Jane Wheel owns a lot of stuff. In fact she owns too much stuff which often gets her into trouble. So finally she agrees to do the unthinkable: she holds her very first garage sale. . Thankfully the sale ends almost before it begins interrupted by a hysterical phone call from Janes mother Nellie. But Janes relief doesnt last long. Nellie is calling to tell Jane about a mysterious discovery on a neighbors property: bone fragments buried in his backyard. Since Janes husband Charlie is a geologist Jane volunteers to make the trip to her hometown Kankakee Illinois to see if they can help her parents neighbor Fuzzy Neilson sort things out.. When they arrive Jane and Charlie are surprised to find quite a controversy brewing in town and not just over the mysterious discovery of the bones. In addition to Fuzzys buried treasure people are trying to reinvent this sleepy midwestern town. There are a couple of slick real estate developers going around town talking a big game about making Kankakee into Hometown U.S.A. Then Janes best friend Tim gets in on the act proposing that Kankakee host the Worlds Largest Garage Sale. But when a man turns up murdered on Fuzzys field the spotlight turns back to the mysterious doings on the Neilson farm.. While Charlie uncovers what may or may not be an archaelogically significant site Jane manages to uncover the towns buried secrets. With the help of her family Tim and sometime partner P.I. Bruce Oh Jane must sort rumor and gossip from the true crimes before its too late.. With Buried Stuff Sharon Fiffer continues to chronicle the events in the life of her charming human slightly obsessive main character Jane Wheel; intriguing suspenseful and lively like the best of mystery writing today reading Fiffers latest novel is like coming across one of Janes estate sale discoveries and finding it full of delights and surprises.