Mountain View Terrace

Set in the mid-sixites, Jan Birch is a typical housewife struggling with an unhappy marriage and an anti-social son. In the third Jan Birch Mystery, she fulfills a dream by getting a part-time job that utilizes her artistic skills and finally realizes she needs to come to some resolution with her marriage after she begins a tentative relationship with local police officer, Ernie Connors. Though the affair remains strictly plutonic, Jan feels things she’s never felt before. When Ernie’s wife is discovered stuffed into the freezer in their garage, Ernie is quickly accused of the crime. Unable to believe the man she’s fallen in love with is a murderer, Jan secretly begins to investigate the crime.

Also included in The Development: Three Jan Birch Mysteries.