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Mining for Justice, the eighth novel in the Chloe Ellefson mystery series, delivers grandly on author Kathleen Ernst’s trademark mix of romance, history, and murder. As in previous outings, she sets the story in an evocative Midwestern historical site; this time, it’s Pendarvis, the wonderful museum dedicated to the Cornish lead miners of Mineral Point, Wisconsin.
Chloe’s true love, the hunky but conflicted Officer Roelke McKenna, is up to his toboggans in anti-drug operations, career moves, and threats to his sister’s vulnerable family in the small village of Eagle, Wisconsin.
Meanwhile Chloe spends a protracted week at Pendarvis to help the site’s curator, a friend and colleague.Things get sticky when a long-entombed body pops up in the root cellar of a miner’s cottage undergoing renovation. And they get even stickier when a local researcher dies of a not-so-accidental accident.
Through it all is woven the intriguing story of a 19th-century Cornish immigrant “mine girl� who seeks to build a respectable life in America while caring for her brothers and protecting a succession of victimized children.
Kathleen Ernst is a past master of the art of juggling multiple story lines, past and present, in a way that compels the reader to keep turning pages.
Try Mining for Justice. You’ll really like it.