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Living witness : a Gregor Demarkian novel

A nuanced look at the debate over teaching evolution in public schools. Demarkian, whoś about to marry his longtime significant other, Bennis Hannaford, gains a welcome distraction from the last-minute preparations. In Snow Hill, Pa., someone bludgeons 91-year-old Ann-Victoria Hadley, leaving her in a coma. The detective soon learns that Hadley, a recent addition to the school board, was the focus of a heated local controversy for her role in a lawsuit aimed at preventing intelligent design from being taught at the townś schools. While the victim remains unconscious, her assailant strikes again, killing two women who were also plaintiffs in the civil action.

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  • "After the school board inserted "Intelligent Design" into the curriculum, they were sued by a coalition including 91-year-old Anne Victoria Hadley, the most hated woman in town. With the trial about to start and national media gathering, Anne Victoria is found clubbed to death. Brought in by the local police chief, former FBI agent Gregor Demarkian must take on a small town with a short fuse, about to blow sky high."
  • "A nuanced look at the debate over teaching evolution in public schools. Demarkian, whoś about to marry his longtime significant other, Bennis Hannaford, gains a welcome distraction from the last-minute preparations. In Snow Hill, Pa., someone bludgeons 91-year-old Ann-Victoria Hadley, leaving her in a coma. The detective soon learns that Hadley, a recent addition to the school board, was the focus of a heated local controversy for her role in a lawsuit aimed at preventing intelligent design from being taught at the townś schools. While the victim remains unconscious, her assailant strikes again, killing two women who were also plaintiffs in the civil action."@en
  • ""In the course of her ninety-one years, Ann-Victoria Hadley has frequently been the most hated person in Snow Hill, Pennsylvania. But as bad as it's been in the past, now it's worse than ever. After a new school board inserted Intelligent Design into the curriculum, they were sued by a coalition including Hadley, the one member of the board who wouldn't go along with the majority. With the trial about to start and the town held up as a national laughingstock, Annie-Vic, as she is commonly known, is found brutally beaten - clubbed into unconsciousness and not expected to survive. The local police chief, part of the school board being sued, can't handle the case himself out of concern that it will appear to be a conflict of interest, and he doesn't want to turn over the investigation to the state police. Looking for an impartial and unimpeachable figure to handle the crime before the situation gets even more out of control, the police chief decides to hire Gregor Demarkian.""@en
  • "Gregor Demarkian investigates the murders of several local women, who had filed a lawsuit against the town school board for including the theory of Intelligent Design in the school curriculum, evaluating both creationists and evolutionists as possible suspects."@en
  • "aIn her 91 years, Ann-Victoria Hadley has often been the most hated person in Snow Hill, Pennsylvania. But now, it's worse than ever. After a new school board inserted "intelligent design "into the curriculum, they were sued by a coalition including Hadley, the one member of the board who wouldn't go along with the rest. With the trial about to start and the town a national laughing stock, Annie-Vic is found clubbed into unconsciousness and not expected to survive. The local police chief, one of the school board members, can't investigate it himself and doesn't trust the state police. So he brings in Gregor Demarkian. Gregor Demarkian, former FBI agent, is happy to help--his wedding is coming up and he's desperate for a bit of time away from his too-involved neighbors on Cavanaugh Street in Philadelphia. Even if it is to investigate a brutal crime in a powder-keg of a small town."
  • "Gregor Demarkian, former FBI agent, investigates a brutal crime in a powder-keg of a small town in Pennsylvannia."
  • "Gregor Demarkian investigates the murders of several local women who had filed a lawsuit against the town school board for including the theory of Intelligent Design in the school curriculum."

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  • "Detective and mystery fiction"
  • "Detective and mystery stories"
  • "Mystery fiction"
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