Swan Song
by Jo A. Hiestand
A talented musician's unsolved murder draws McLaren into another challenging investigation.Ex-police detective Michael McLaren had no intention of delving into another cold case of murder. And certainly had no intention of making his inquiries a new career. But when his fiancĂ©e dangles the intriguing aspects of the unsolved murder of local folk musician Kent Harrison before McLaren, he snaps at the bait.A popular music teacher at Grange Hall Performing Arts College, Kent Harrison had been, perhaps, more popular as a musician—a minstrel in the vein of 16th and 17th century troubadours. Though singing periodically with Dave Morley, a music shop clerk dying to make his name, money, and the big time, Kent usually appeared as a solo act. Especially during the Minstrels Court, an 8 day medieval event at Tutbury Castle. It was at that event that Kent, albeit unknowingly, last appeared and gave his swan song to his fans.McLaren first questions Kent's ex-wife. Was she...