By Carol Shields
To her neighbours, Mary Swann used to be an easy, hard-working farm spouse; her tender poems are stumbled on merely after she is brutally murdered. The unusual, evocative verses allure the eye of an earnestly self-absorbed feminist pupil, a pompous literary biographer, a virginal small-town librarian, and a curmudgeonly retired newspaper editor. yet as curiosity raises, all lines of Swann's lifestyles - her laptop, the 1st draft of her paintings, even her photo - mysteriously vanish.
In fixing the puzzle of Swann's disappearing legacy, Carol Shields explores the bigger mysteries of the character of paintings, in addition to the strong forces that inspire us all.
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Dr Allen sported new glasses and a salon haircut. Finally having arrived at an age that matched his serious nature, he was beginning to find a look that he felt comfortable with: stylish academic. She had never asked him if he was married but she assumed not, and guessed that the subtle makeover was part of his strategy to remedy the situation. He looked up from the bound notebook in which he made his precise longhand notes. ' He smiled. ' She felt a rush of electricity travel up her spine and she almost said it; almost confessed that her father had told her that Katy was a first cousin, his brother's little girl.
Just tell me what she said, [suspect covers face with hands] DI G: Come on, Paul. Let's hear it. ' And that's when I picked up a knife from the counter and stuck it in her, right there, in the chest. DI G: How many times? [suspect shakes his head] DI G: What did you do then? PC: I ran out of that house. I ran away from there. DI G: What did you do with the knife? PC: Threw it away. DI G: Where? Where did you throw it? [suspect shakes his head, breaking down into tears] The last document in the file was a report from the court- appointed psychiatrist, Dr Helen Graham, who said she had examined Craven on three separate occasions during his remand.
He kept his eyes trained on the centre of her face. He was making her nervous. 'How is your relationship with your son? ' 'For the time being. ' She sounded like a fraud and could tell that he saw straight through her. ' 'We've both been rather busy. He works in the day and has to study at night. I barely get an evening to myself . ' 'So neither of you feels the need to make the effort? ' Declared himself. Where did he get these phrases from? Jenny shrugged. ' Dr Allen nodded, as if she had confirmed his theory.