Early October is βwinding downβ time in Busmanβs Harbor, Maine, but thereβs nothing relaxing about it for Julia Snowden. Between busloads of weekend leaf peepers at the Snowden Family Clambake and a gut renovation of the old mansion on Morrow Island, sheβs keeping it all together with a potentially volatile skeleton crewβuntil one of them turns up dead under the firewood. Β When the Russian demo team clearing out the mansion discovers a room thatβs been sealed off for decades, Juliaβs baffled as to its purpose and what secrets it might have held. Tensions are already simmering with the crew, but when one of the workers is found murdered, things come to a boil. With the discovery of another bodyβand a mysterious diary with Cyrillic text in the hidden roomβthe pressureβs on Julia to dig up a real killer fast. But sheβll have to sort through a pile of suspects, including ex-spouses, a spurned lover, and a recently released prisoner, to fish out one clammed-up killer.