Patience and Verity Mackellar
Created by Janet Lapierre
Subtitled "A Port Silva Mystery," Keepers (2001) is yet another novel in Lapierre's series dealing with the fictional a fictional northern California community with a population of 25,000 near Mendocino. Although the setting remains the same, each book has featured a different set of characters. In this one, PATIENCE and VERITY MACKELLAR are a mother-and-daughter team of private eyes.
Patience's late husband was a cop who was left wheelchair-bound after being shot. Together they formed a detective agency, and when he passed on, she kept it going. Now she's hired their 30-year old daughter, Verity, to do the legwork. Verity's coming out of a bad marriage, and has come home to roost. Together they make an appealing team, and Lapierre supposedly captures the rugged beauty of the coast and its citizens perfectly.
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Report submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.