New York Times bestselling author of Murder on the Half Shelf Lorna Barrett delivers another compulsively page- turning Booktown Mystery in which amateur sleuth and bookstore owner Tricia Miles gets caught up in a local election that turns lethalβ¦
Itβs November in Stoneham, New Hampshire, and that means itβs time for the Chamber of Commerce elections. The race is already a bit heated, as the long-standing Chamber president is being challenged by a former loverβTriciaβs own sister, Angelica. Then local small business owner Stan Berry throws his hat in the ring.
Unfortunately, itβs not there for long when heβs found murdered in the Brookview Inn. The murder weapon is a brass letter opener belonging to the innβs receptionist. Tricia knows thereβs no way the receptionist is a killer. And when Angelica asks Tricia to help clear her name and win the election, she sees little choice except to start snooping.
She soon uncovers a ballot box full of lies and betrayals, and a chamber full of people who had grudges against the victim. But were they serious enough to lead to murder? And who truly had something to gain? Tricia will have to do some serious sleuthing before she pulls the lever on a killer.
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