Handbook for Homicide

Informationen zum Autor Lorna Barrett is the New York Times bestselling author of the Booktown Mysteries, including Poisoned Pages and A Just Clause. Klappentext Tricia Miles must swim against the tide to catch a killer when Haven't Got A Clue's assistant manager is accused of murder in the latest entry to Lorna Barrett's New York Times bestselling Booktown series. Haven't Got A Clue bookshop owner Tricia Miles's relationship is on the rocks. After a not-so-fun vacation with her on-again-off-again lover, Marshall Cambridge, Tricia's hoping for smooth sailing back in Stoneham. Unfortunately Booktown greets her not with blue skies but with another body. When Tricia's assistant manager, Pixie, finds homeless vet Susan Morris's body behind Haven't Got A Clue, Pixie's checkered past makes her the prime suspect. Tricia sets out to clear Pixie's name armed with only an anchor insignia earring found at the scene of the crime. As Tricia digs deeper she discovers Susan was involved in a scandal right before retiring from the Navy-but since nobody in the village knows Susan, even Tricia's one lead is in danger of drying up. With family drama brewing in the background and all of Stoneham convinced her manager is a murderer, Tricia knows she has to get to the bottom of the case soon before Pixie's life is sunk. Leseprobe ONE   ¥It had been a quiet ride back from Logan International Airport on that beautiful mid-September morning. Tricia Miles glanced across the seat to take in her chauffeur. She and Marshall Cambridge, her more-or-less significant other, had gotten off an Aer Lingus red-eye flight to Boston some four hours before, She hadn't slept a wink, and the drudgery of going through customs, collecting their luggage, and then retrieving Marshall's car from the long-term parking lot had left her feeling sluggish and drained. All she wanted to do was go home, pet her cat, and sleep.   She'd known the trip wasn't going to be a vacation. Of course, she enjoyed the Emerald Isle's countryside, meeting the people, and the food and drink, but she also had to depend on the other members of the tour-and most of them elderly-for company. It was a working vacation for Marshall, who'd teamed up with Milford Travel to lead the tour. As expected, he spent more time playing fixer for everything that could go wrong-from lost luggage to motion-sick passengers on the bus that transported the group from Dublin to Belfast and back again.   As she gazed at the scenery that zoomed past the passenger-side window, Tricia wondered if she was ready to analyze how she felt about the tour-and, truthfully, her relationship with Marshall. She'd been avoiding the latter for the past few months. He was a great conversationalist and a man of the world with many wonderful attributes. He was kind to animals, old people, and especially to her. But she wasn't sure she loved him. She hadn't mentioned the L-word, and in the months since they'd started dating, neither had he.   That was actually okay with her, but it seemed to be a topic many people in the village of Stoneham, New Hampshire, where they both lived and worked, wanted to talk about. People like Pixie Poe, the assistant manager at her vintage mystery bookstore, Haven't Got a Clue. People whom she ran into at the local eateries and the coffee shop, and even when out walking her sister's bichon frise, Sarge. Everybody seemed more interested in her relationship with Marshall than she was. Why didn't that raise a red flag?   Because she liked him. Because he wasn't demanding. Because . . . she was pretty sure that this relationship wasn't going to last much longer. Why? There seemed to be a definite lack of passion-on both their parts. That wasn't something she wanted to talk about with family, friends, acquaintances, or especially near strangers.   Marshall turned off Route 101 and stee...

Product details

• Authors: Lorna Barrett
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9781984802750
• ISBN: 978-1-984802-75-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 236 mm x 29 mm
• Series: A Booktown Mystery
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense