Halloween is coming to Tinker’s Cove, Maine, and local
reporter Lucy Stone is covering the town’s annual Giant
Pumpkin Fest for the Pennysaver. There’s the pumpkin-boat
regatta, the children’s Halloween party, the pumpkin
weigh-in…even a contest where home-built catapults hurl
pumpkins at an old Dodge! But not everything goes quite as
planned…
Lucy’s getting very annoyed that her husband Bill and his
friend Evan have been working seemingly nonstop on their
potentially prize-winning pumpkin catapult. But when the day
of the big contest arrives, Evan is nowhere to be
found…until a catapulted pumpkin busts open the trunk of the
Dodge. Amid the pumpkin gore is a very deceased Evan, bashed
in the head and placed in the trunk by someone long before
the contest started.
Bill is on the hook for the Halloween homicide—he was the
last one to see Evan—so Lucy knows she’s got some serious
sleuthing to do. The crime’s trail seems to always circle
back to Country Cousins, the town’s once-quaint general
store that’s now become a big Internet player. Though the
store’s founder, Old Sam Miller, is long gone, his son Tom
and grandson Trey now run the hugely successful company. But
whispered rumors say things aren’t going well, and Lucy
finds that this case may have something to do with an
unsolved, decades-old Miller family mystery…
With each new lead pointing her in a different direction,
Lucy sees that time is quickly running out. If she wants to
spook the real killer, she’ll have to step into an old ghost
story…