Recently read: Jane Langton’s Steeplechase

I like Langton’s books and her detective Homer Kelly. I don’t often think of buying them unless I see a good deal on the discount shelves of my local bookstore or, in this case, at one of my favorite book sites, Daedalus Books (http://www.salebooks.com/ ). This is a sequel to one of hers that escaped my notice, The Deserter: Murder at Gettysburg. In Steeplechase, we bounce back and forth to the years following the Civil War and today as Homer and his wife Mary research the old churches of New England. Nicely done and, as are most of Langton’s books, charmingly illustrated.