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From your acclaimed New York Times best-selling writer of Still Missing, More than You Know, and Gossip comes the first accessibility in a stylish and witty mystery series featuring a pair of unlikely investigators - a shrewd novel of manners with a dark heart of murder at its middle, set in small-town New Britain. Indulging their pleasure in travel and new experiences, just lately retired private school brain Maggie Detweiler and her old good friend, socialite Desire Babbin, are going to Maine. The trip - to attend a weeklong expert cooking category at the picturesque Victorian-era Oquossoc Pile Inn - is an experiment to test their compatibility for future expeditions. Desire and Maggie have hardly finished their first aperitifs when the inn's tranquility is shattered by the appearance of Alexander and Lisa Antippas and Lisa's celebrity sister, Glory. Imperious and rude, these Hollywood 1 percenters quickly turn the inn ugly with their strenuous action, igniting a flurry of speculation and gossip among personnel and guests similarly. However the disruption soon becomes deadly. After having a suspicious late-night flames is brought under control, Alex's charred body is found in the ashes. Enter the town's deputy sheriff, Buster Babbin, Hope's long-estranged child and Maggie's previous student. A guy who's finally found his footing in life, Buster requires a gain. But he's quickly pressed besides by the "big boys" - older police and high-powered state's lawyers who swoop directly into make a quick arrest. Maggie knows that Buster has his deficits and his talents. She also knows that justice does not always prevail - and that the difference between conviction and exoneration all too often depends on lazy law enforcement officials work and the ambitions of prosecutors. She knows, too, after a lifetime of observing real human nature, you have a great advantage in doing the right thing unless you care who gets the credit or whom you annoy. Sense that justice could use a helping palm - as could the deputy sheriff - Maggie and Desire decide that two women of experience outfitted with healthy interest, plenty of good sense, and a cheerfully cynical love of life have a good role to experience in uncovering the reality.

Category: Contemporary Women