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	Three O'Clock's Dark Night: The Number Mysteries dusty bunker iUniverse, Inc., 2004 - 232 pages average customer review:based on 1 review view larger image
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A simple camping trip turns into a nightmare when a dying man taps repetitively on the side of the motor home next door to Samantha Blackwell and her husband. Sam is convinced that the tapping is a message, some kind of code, left by the victim.

When the local minister tells her in confidence that he was supposed to meet the victim and had, in fact, been there when the man was murdered, he pleads for her help.

What can Sam do? Her friend is in trouble.

To observe one of the suspects, Sam disguises herself as a biker mama and enters the depraved depths of the Pigpen, the most infamous biker bar in southern New Hampshire. Before the evening is through, she is challenged by her fear and the roomful of angry, tattooed bikers.

Sam escapes from the bar at midnight, and is chased through the back roads of New Hampshire by a shadowy figure on a Harley? in a car? She can't tell which, as her speedometer hits seventy miles-an-hour.

Sam has to wonder if her loyalties and curiosity are finally going to be the end of her.

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A great tale!

Dusty Bunker has published nine books, some in foreign languages. She has many publications to her credit, including columns for MADEMOISELLE MAGAZINE, the MANCHESTER UNION LEADER, a cartoon strip entitled TREE LINE, and the Time-Life Series MYSTERIES OF THE UNKNOWN. THREE O'CLOCK'S DARK NIGHT is her third mystery, and she is currently at work on her fourth Samantha Blackwell mystery.

A dying man taps out a code on the trailer next door to Sam Blackwell. Sam's childhood friend, Charlie asks her to think about the sequence, which is 1-1-2-3. This man has embezzled the funds of the Frazetta Hardware Store, causing the suicide of Claudio Frazetta and putting the entire family's future at risk The Reverend Hannibal Loveless is fighting his own demons, as he was supposed to meet the murdered man, whose murder threatens to unravel his own life. In this small New England town Sam has the reputation for solving mysteries. Her husband, Nick, adores her after almost thirty years of marriage. Her friends are in trouble, and Sam swings into action and thought about what could be at the center of all the trouble:

"So, what do we have? Her eyelids drooped. We have an accountant who committed suicide. And his wife, two sons and the daughter, who all had a good reason to want the embezzling accountant dead. We have a biker who briefly dated Lynda Johanssen, who later became the accountant's girlfriend. And now the accountant's dead. A cast of five suspects, it would seem. And seven tappings. Five and seven equal twelve, the number of months in the year, although the solar calendar was originally a lunar calendar corresponding to the thirteen full moons in each year. Huh. Twelve apostles. Jesus made thirteen. Twelve witches in a coven. The High Priestess, the thirteenth."

Dusty Bunker begins her metaphysical mystery with several disparate lives, yet each character is linked. At first, all seem to be lost souls, like in THE HISTORY OF VIOLENCE. There is murder; violence; sorrow; fear; and loathing. But as Dusty's plot unwinds, there is love; helpfulness; and redemption. And, yes, always the background of Chaos Theory. A great tale!

Shelley Glodowski
Senior Reviewer

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