A Killer Edition

Informationen zum Autor Lorna Barrett is the New York Times bestselling author of the Booktown Mysteries, including Poisoned Pages,   A Just Clause, and Title Wave . She lives in Rochester, New York. Visit her websites: lornabarrett.com, facebook.com/lornabarrett.author, twitter.com/LornaBarrett. Klappentext Murder's in the mix for mystery bookstore owner and amateur sleuth Tricia Miles, in the latest entry to Lorna Barrett's New York Times bestselling Booktown series. With her assistant, Pixie, picking up more responsibility around the shop, Tricia Miles suddenly has a lot more time on her hands. Tricia decides to join the local animal-rescue board and enter the Great Stoneham Bake-Off, but neither pans out as smoothly as she'd hoped. Balancing a bake-off that's heating up with a frosty reception from the board, Tricia stops by Joyce Whitman's romance bookstore looking for a book to get her fired up. She stumbles on something hot, but it's an argument between Joyce and her neighbor Vera Olson instead of a steamy read. When Vera turns up dead in Joyce's garden hours later, Tricia has to wonder-could Joyce be the killer? Or is the culprit still lurking in town? One thing is for sure, someone in Stoneham is stirring up something more sinister than sweet. Tricia is determined to win the cutthroat cooking contest, but first she will have to make sure no one else is in danger of getting burned.... Leseprobe ***This excerpt is from an advance uncorrected copy proof*** Copyright © 2019 Lorna Barrett   ONE Tricia Miles gripped the steering wheel so tightly, her fingers were white. A death grip like that wasn’t healthy, not if one intended to use one’s fingers for other purposes—like turning the page of a book or holding a cup filled with coffee. Or perhaps strangling someone. Okay, strangulation was perhaps too harsh a punishment for someone who supposedly had your best interests at heart, but of late, Dr. Kendra Vought had inspired thoughts of little else. Her specialty was grief counseling, but she didn’t seem particularly good at her profession. Though she said things like “Time is your greatest friend,” her body language, bored expression, and an eye on the clock conveyed another message: “Move on, already.” Moving on was proving to be a lot more difficult than Tricia had anticipated. Not that she hadn’t already experienced a prolonged period of grief when her beloved grandmother had died—and at far too young an age. But she had been older than Tricia’s ex-husband, Christopher Benson, who hadn’t died of disease but had been murdered. Maybe that was why after almost two years, Tricia still thought about him daily. And it wasn’t like he had been an everyday part of her life. After their divorce, it got so that she thought of him only now and then—until he’d reappeared practically on her doorstep with requests to “get back together,” all of which she had ignored. But it wasn’t Christopher who was on her mind just then. After that morning’s session, Tricia and Dr. Vought were officially through. Her last piece of advice had been ludicrous, to say the least. “Go read a sexy romance novel, and then visit your friend with benefits.” Friend with benefits? That wasn’t how Tricia thought of her relationship with Marshall Cambridge. Okay, they were friends, and they did sometimes have the occasional sleepover, but that didn’t mean . . . Good grief, Tricia realized. She and Marshall were friends with benefits! And oddly enough, that was all Tricia really wanted from the relationship. At least . . . for now. But read a sexy romance? Forget it. Tricia braked as she approached the Stoneham municipal parking lot, which was pretty full on that sunny morning in late June—a morning that was quickly slipping toward noon. After locking the Lexus, Tricia headed for t...

Product details

• Authors: Lorna Barrett
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781984802736
• ISBN: 978-1-984802-73-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 173 mm x 21 mm
• Series: A Booktown Mystery; Booktown Mystery
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense