There's some shady business in Shady Creek, Vermont, this spring--in
the third mystery by USA Today bestselling author Sarah Fox featuring
pub owner and amateur sleuth Sadie Coleman . . .
Sadie is delighted to have booked famous romantic suspense novelist
Linnea Bliss for an event at The Inkwell, her literary-themed pub,
housed in a renovated grist mill. The author and her personal assistant
Marcie are staying at Shady Creek Manor, a grand historical hotel that
was once a private mansion and is rumored to still hold hidden treasure
somewhere within its walls.
But the hotel's storied past is nothing compared to its tragic present
when Marcie plummets to her death from an open window on the third
floor. After Sadie discovers signs of a struggle in the room, it's clear
that someone assisted the assistant out the window. But Marcie is new in
town--who would have a motive to kill her?
In between pulling pints and naming literary-themed cocktails, Sadie
takes it on herself to solve the case, wondering if the crime is
connected to the vandalized vehicles of a film crew in town to do a
feature on local brewer Grayson Blake, with whom Sadie shares a strong
flirtation. Or could the poor woman's defenestration have anything to do
with the legendary treasure? As Shady Creek Manor prepares for a May Day
masquerade ball, Sadie is determined to unmask the killer--but when she
uncorks a whole lot of trouble, will she meet a bitter end?
