ISBN: 9780593333501
Editorial: Berkley
Autor: Barrett, Lorna
Año de edición: 2022
N° Paginas: 336
Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
Descripción: Bookstore owner Tricia Miles tries to open a new chapter in life, but murder mars the pages in the latest entry to Lorna Barrett's New York Times bestselling Booktown series.Tricia Miles and her sister, Angelica, are the co-presidents of the Stoneham Chamber of Commerce. Things are changing in the booktown, and some merchants would say not for the better. They grumble that too many non-book-related stores are moving into the village, taking up the most visible storefronts on Main Street, diluting the “Booktown” moniker. Of course, the members with other businesses, like the latest, The Bee’s Knees, are fine with other businesses moving in. No matter what side of the argument they're on, all the business owners agree on one thing: Tricia and Angelica are to blame.Still, it's a pretty typical day in the life of a small-town Chamber of Commerce until one of the disgruntled bookstore owners is killed—Eli Meier from The Inner Light Bookstore, the most vocal of the Chamber complainers. He sold religious and other spiritual books, but also stocked books on wild conspiracy theories and sold incense, crystals, etc. Eli had never been a member of the Chamber until Angelica recently convinced him to join. He hit on her and she, having good taste, turned him down. He hounded (but not stalked) her, and some might think that was a motive for murder.Stoneham's new police chief is an old friend of Tricia's, but that doesn't mean he's going to go easy on her sister. One might even say that he's going to throw the book at her.About the AuthorLorna Barrett is the New York Times bestselling author of the Booktown Mysteries, including A Deadly Deletion, Handbook for Homicide, and A Killer Edition. She lives in Rochester, New York.Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.ONE¥Tricia Miles glanced over the notes she'd jotted down the previous evening in anticipation of that morning's Stoneham Chamber of Commerce meeting. How things had changed for the Chamber in just six months.The previous October, the organization had been on the brink of insolvency, housed in a drafty warehouse unsuitable as a place for its members to meet, and was hemorrhaging warm, dues-paying bodies by the day. And then came the election with an outcome no one had anticipated. The two candidates hadn't received enough votes to win, but two write-in noncontenders were tied. And that's how Tricia and her sister, Angelica, were now co-presidents of the Chamber.It was true that membership hadn't bounced back quite as fast as the sisters had hoped, but thanks to the generosity of their colleagues, they had obtained office space, a free meeting place, and office supplies. They could manage for the rest of the year, when it was hoped dues would once again float the Chamber's financial boat.Tricia and Angelica had worked together during Angelica's tenure as the organization's leader, and Tricia volunteered while her vintage mystery bookstore, Haven't Got a Clue, was closed due to a fire. At that time, and under Angelica's leadership, the Chamber had thrived. Tricia was to be her heiress apparent but lost the contest by a mere three votes when Russ Smith had thrown his hat into the ring. When the elected leader had died of a heart attack, it was deemed Russ was the victor. He spent the next ten months on a quest to destroy the organization and would have succeeded if he hadn't been arrested for murder with a charge of embezzlement of the Chamber's assets thrown in for good measure. When he eventually came to trial, he was destined to spend many years, if not the rest of his life, as a guest of the New Hampshire penal system.The Brookview Inn, owned by Nigela Ricita (known to only a few as Angelica herself), had graciously allowed the Chamber to meet there for the rest of the year with no fee. Chamber members did have to cough up ten bucks each to cover the cost of their continental breakfasts, but those who had bothered to chec
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