Timber Beasts: A Sage Adair Historical Mystery of the Pacific Northwest

by S. L. Stoner

Overview

The year is 1902. John Sagacity Adair, "Sage" to his friends, is a wealthy restaurant proprietor in Portland, Oregon. Beneath the flickering gaslights of his elegant eatery, Mozart's Table, Sage appears urbane and attractively shallow. Yet, he is someone altogether different. Haunted by memories of an impoverished childhood, Sage seeks acceptance by City's financial elite only so that he can expose their secrets.

After nearly two years of social maneuvering, he has won an invitation to Arista Dunlop's exclusive soiree. By the end of that night, more questions are raised than he thinks can be answered. What is the secret deal Portland's financiers are so eager to hide? Did his cook's nephew knife the brutal railroad guard? And, why has his Chinese colleague chosen such an inopportune time to make the distracting observations that "a soul needs unbreakedness?" Nothing is turning out as Sage planned.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940151073585
Publisher:	Yamhill Press
Publication date:	08/11/2009
Series:	Sage Adair Historical Mysteries of the Pacific Northwest , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	276
File size:	318 KB

About the Author

Susan Stoner, writing as S.L. Stoner, is a native Oregonian who works full time as a labor union lawyer. Like that of her series hero, Sage Adair, Stoner’s life has tended toward the adventurous. She’s worked in skid road bars, Las Vegas casinos, free clinics and as a prisoners’ advocate, psychology center videographer and federal judge’s intern. Besides living in Portland, Oregon, Susan has also lived in a forest lean-to, a Sikh home in Singapore, alongside an alligator-infested Louisiana bayou, inside a sweltering Las Vegas tent, in a camper atop a ‘65 International pick-up truck as well as in a variety of more traditional Houston, Texas, abodes. She was a participant in Portland’s original neighborhood movement and has since been involved in citizen activism, like filing and winning a lawsuit to preserve Portland’s soon-to-be destroyed historical open reservoirs (one of those “win the battle, lose the war” experiences). She lives with her husband and two dogs in Southeast Portland when they are not traveling or hanging out in the great Cascade range forests. One of her passions is historical research, particularly that involving original source material. The third book in the Sage Adair series, Dry Rot, was published June 2013. The fourth book, Black Drop, awaits final editing and will be released early 2014.