In the tenth installment of Barbara Ross's award-winning mystery
series starring Julia Snowden and her family's coastal Maine clambake
business, a heated feud over a proposed pedestrian mall leads to
murder--which means it's up to Julia to clean up the case.
Mud season takes on a whole new meaning in the coastal town of Busman's
Harbor, Maine, when local business owners sling dirt at one another in a
heated feud over a proposed pedestrian mall. Vandalism is one thing, but
murder means Julia Snowden of the Snowden Family Clambake steps in to
clean up the case...
When Julia spots police cars in front of Lupine Design, she races over.
Her sister Livvie works there as a potter. Livvie is unharmed but
surrounded by smashed up pottery. The police find the owner Zoey
Butterfield digging clay by a nearby bay, but she has no idea who would
target her store. Zoey is a vocal advocate for turning four blocks of
Main Street into a pedestrian mall on summer weekends. Other shop
owners, including her next-door neighbor, are vehemently opposed. Could
a small-town fight provoke such destruction? When a murder follows the
break-in, it's up to Julia to dig through the secrets and lies to
uncover the truth...