Death of a Wandering Wolf

Informationen zum Autor Julia Buckley is the author of the Undercover Dish mysteries and the Writer's Apprentice mysteries. She is a member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, and the Chicago Writer's Association. She has taught high school English for twenty-nine years. Klappentext Hana Keller is enjoying a day off from serving up tea and delicious pastries at her family's Hungarian Tea House when her downtime turns deadly.... The only thing Hana loves more than a good cuppa is finding a delicate porcelain treasure to add to her collection. She's usually on the hunt for teacups but when she spots a rare wolf figurine at a local yard sale, she knows it's her lucky day. Hana also knows the wolf is valuable and tells the seller that he's charging too little for it. His reaction is peculiar--he says he received the wolf from someone he doesn't trust and he just wants it out of his life. Hana is inspecting her new prize when she finds a tiny microchip attached to the bottom of the porcelain wolf. When she shows the figure to her police detective boyfriend, Erik, Hana is shocked to learn that the chip is actually a tracking device. They decide to confront the seller about the sneaky sale but when they arrive at his house, they find him dead. Erik and Hana now must hunt a calculating killer who has no intentions of crying wolf when it comes to murder... Leseprobe Chapter 1   The Wolf   My friend Katie called to me over several tables laden with wares at a Riverwood garage sale; we were there, at my insistence, at eight on a Saturday morning, when one might still find treasure. Since the October wind was blustery and held specks of ice, the sale's host was displaying his wares in his basement, which made me feel that I was in some eccentric antique shop; and indeed the dim, white-walled room was bulging with items and with possibility. "Hana, look at this! What a gorgeous sweater! Come here. This would look amazing on your hunky boyfriend."   I strolled toward her, my eyes scanning dishware and linens. One wall that I had not investigated yet held unframed canvases adorned with original paintings, signed by the artist. Even at a glance I could tell they were very good-the work of a professional. I reached Katie, and she thrust the sweater into my face. "Look at this! It's an Ulveflokk. I'm dying to visit their store. It's right down the street from where I work, but I never have time. They were just featured on the Channel Seven news. Did you see them?"   "No. What's that weird name?"   "Ulveflokk! They're Scandinavian or something. But look at this!" The sweater was indeed lovely, a pale wheat color with a bright blue fleur-de-lis around the turtleneck, an elaborate dotted design in a lighter blue beneath that, and finally a solid wheat at the bottom. "Cotton yarn, very soft," she said.   "Why don't you get it for Eduardo?"   She looked away. "I don't know if we're dating right now. It's not his color, anyway."   "What do you mean, you're not-"   "Hey, Hana!" she cried, thrusting the sweater into my hands and lunging toward something a few tables away. "Oh my gosh, I'm finding everything that you're not today. You trained me well." She jogged to a shadowy corner and said, "You are going to owe me a million dollars!"   If people were punctuation, Katie would be an exclamation point. She came back, grinning from ear to ear. "I just found one of your Hungarian things. The company with the diamonds."   "What?"   "You know." She was hiding something behind her back; her eyes were wide with the joy of discovery. "That net covering."   "The fishnet design? Do you mean a Herend piece?" The Herend porcelain company in Hungary had a distinctive technique that set their figurines apart. Dating back to the 1800s, ...

Product details

• Authors: Julia Buckley
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781984804846
• ISBN: 978-1-984804-84-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 173 mm x 19 mm
• Series: A HUNGARIAN TEA HOUSE MYSTERY
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature