Finalist for the 2020 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards!
It's spring on Washington Island. Despite her concerns about Roger's
desire to bartend, Elisabeth is eager to plan a grand opening for their
newly remodeled hotel, but she quickly realizes that she may also need
to make accommodations for Roger's proposed goat yoga classes. Bored and
lonely, Oliver Robert joins bartender Eddie in forming a great books
club at Nelsen's, and Emily Martin, determined to make her mark on the
community, forms a new Committee of the Concerned.
When Emily decides that the Island needs a literary festival, complete
with a famous author, she imprudently seeks out a notorious celebrity,
hoping, as always, to enhance her own prestige. Real estate agent Marcie
Landmeier confides that an unknown someone is buying up the Island's
shoreline, newly-appointed Fire Chief Jim Freeberg contends with a
string of suspicious fires, and Pali and Ben have a spiritual encounter
that will change them both. Meanwhile, drawn once more into local
controversy, and awash in suspicion herself, Fiona Campbell must
determine the answers to questions that will affect her future, and the
future of the entire Island.
A Small Earnest Question is Book Four in the award-winning North of
the Tension Line series, set on a remote island in the Great Lakes.
Called a modern-day Jane Austen, author J.F. Riordan creates wry,
engaging tales and vivid characters that celebrate the beauty and
mysteries of everyday life.
