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Maggie Detweiler and Hope Babbin #1
William Morrow
May 2016
On Sale: May 10, 2016
Featuring: Maggie Detweiler; Hope Babbin
288 pages
ISBN: 006243196X
EAN: 9780062431967
Kindle: B014PT1RN0
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Suspense | Mystery
From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling
author of Still Missing, More Than You Know, and
Gossip comes the first entry in a stylish and witty
mystery series featuring a pair of unlikely investigators—a
shrewd novel of manners with a dark heart of murder at its
center, set in small-town New England. Indulging their
pleasure in travel and new experiences, recently retired
private school head Maggie Detweiler and her old friend,
socialite Hope Babbin, are heading to Maine. The trip—to
attend a weeklong master cooking class at the picturesque
Victorian-era Oquossoc Mountain Inn—is an experiment to test
their compatibility for future expeditions. Hope and
Maggie have barely finished their first aperitifs when the
inn’s tranquility is shattered by the arrival of Alexander
and Lisa Antippas and Lisa’s actress sister, Glory.
Imperious and rude, these Hollywood one-percenters quickly
turn the inn upside-down with their demanding behavior,
igniting a flurry of speculation and gossip among staff and
guests alike. But the disruption soon turns deadly.
After a suspicious late-night fire is brought under control,
Alex’s charred body is found in the ashes. Enter the town’s
deputy sheriff, Buster Babbin, Hope’s long-estranged son and
Maggie’s former student. A man who’s finally found his
footing in life, Buster needs a win. But he’s quickly pushed
aside by the “big boys,” senior law enforcement and
high-powered state’s attorneys who swoop in to make a quick
arrest. Maggie knows that Buster has his deficits and
his strengths. She also knows that justice does not always
prevail—and that the difference between conviction and
exoneration too often depends on lazy police work and the
ambitions of prosecutors. She knows too, after a lifetime of
observing human nature, that you have a great advantage in
doing the right thing if you don’t care who gets the credit
or whom you annoy. Feeling that justice could use a
helping hand--as could the deputy sheriff—Maggie and Hope
decide that two women of experience equipped with healthy
curiosity, plenty of common sense, and a cheerfully cynical
sense of humor have a useful role to play in uncovering the
truth.
Maggie Detweiler and Hope Babbin
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