When former sketch artist, Rory McCain gets pulled into a
bizarre death involving a con-artist more people wanted dead
than alive, she finds herself following clue after clue which
point to a possible murder. Although the death of Preston
Wright was ruled an accident after he died in a flash flood,
as Rory McCain investigates, she finds a plethora of people
who wanted Preston Wright dead.
As Rory begins to investigate the death of Preston Wright,
shocking revelations surface which reveal Wright lived under
a sundry of assumed names. Rory's investigation points her
to person after person who held a personal grudge against
the deceased con-artist. But when Rory gets too close to
discovering who truly murdered Wright, the killer sends her
chilling message to call her investigation off.
While Rory's investigation into Preston's death is keeping
her busy, she also has to solve the murder of her resident
ghost, Federal Marshal, Zeke Drummond. Although Zeke died
over 100 years ago, he has never been able to rest in peace
without knowing who murdered him. Zeke gives Rory the
ultimate ultimatum, either she finds out who murdered him,
or he will become a permanent resident in her lovely
Victorian home.
Sharon Pape spoils her readers with not one riveting
mystery, but two! Readers will love the slow unfolding of
the mysterious death of Preston Wright. Pape adds plenty of
humor to this splendidly-written mystery. Readers will laugh
from cover to cover as Rory juggles two murder mysteries
with one of the murder victims pressing her for immediate
results. SKETCH A FALLING STAR effortlessly transitions from
the present
to the nineteenth-century as Rory attempts to please her
aggravated ghostly roommate. SKETCH A FALLING STAR is
simply fabulous!
+When the “Way Off Broadway Players” get swept up in a flash
flood while sightseeing in Arizona, Rory McCain’s aunt
Helene and her fellow amateur thespians survive—with the
exception of Preston Wright.
The victim was actually a womanizing scam-artist who duped
nearly everyone in the troupe, as well as an ex-con who
operated under various aliases. While Preston’s death was
deemed to be an “act of nature,” Rory can’t discount the
possibility that human nature may have contributed to his
drowning.
But even as she investigates the cast of characters to find
out which one played the villain, Rory is finally on the
verge of solving a cold case -- the murder of her ghost
partner, Zeke.
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