CAUSE & EFFECT (ROSEMARY COOPER TIME TRAVEL MYSTERY)
Description
A 1988 class ring belonging to one Troy Hailey is retrieved from the stomach contents of a John Doe found murdered outside Grand Central Station in New York City. Detective Rosemary Cooper travels upstate to the small town located on the banks of the Saint Lawrence River to investigate.
When Coop steps through the door of the 24 hour JAVA Diner, she finds she has traveled back in time to when the Andrew sisters sang “Don’t Sit Under The Apple Tree,†and the Hailey Comment headline proclaims: GERMAN U-BOATS SPOTTED IN OUR BACKYARD.
Since neither she nor Troy Hailey had as yet been born in 1942, Coop is baffled as to why her Predestination Causality Loop has zapped her back to this time, this place? That is until she overhears the locals discussing how to “get rid of the Krauts†living in their midst. Most vocal is the town’s founder, Tobias Hailey, and a young Frank Cooper, who is destined to become her father.
Has she traveled back in time to intervene, keeping her father from participating in the plot to kill innocent people, thus paving the way for him to fulfill his destiny, not only as her father, but as a U.S. Congressman? Or is there a more ominous reason for her sojourn into the past? Is John Doe’s killer among the residents of Hailey? Has she been sent here to manipulate events somehow preventing his murder in 2008?
When Coop steps through the door of the 24 hour JAVA Diner, she finds she has traveled back in time to when the Andrew sisters sang “Don’t Sit Under The Apple Tree,†and the Hailey Comment headline proclaims: GERMAN U-BOATS SPOTTED IN OUR BACKYARD.
Since neither she nor Troy Hailey had as yet been born in 1942, Coop is baffled as to why her Predestination Causality Loop has zapped her back to this time, this place? That is until she overhears the locals discussing how to “get rid of the Krauts†living in their midst. Most vocal is the town’s founder, Tobias Hailey, and a young Frank Cooper, who is destined to become her father.
Has she traveled back in time to intervene, keeping her father from participating in the plot to kill innocent people, thus paving the way for him to fulfill his destiny, not only as her father, but as a U.S. Congressman? Or is there a more ominous reason for her sojourn into the past? Is John Doe’s killer among the residents of Hailey? Has she been sent here to manipulate events somehow preventing his murder in 2008?
