Erika Chase
Hosting an award-winning novelist is quite a Christmas coup for the Ashton Corners Mystery Readers and Cheese Straw Society. But when heâ€™s murdered in Lizzie Turnerâ€™s house, sheâ€™s got a holiday homicide on her hands â€¦,For their very first guest author event, most of the book club members canâ€™t wait to pull out all the stops in Southern hospitality. But for Lizzie, Derek Alton is nothing but troubleâ€”from his massive ego to his smarmy moves. When heâ€™s found murdered in her living room, it seems someone decided that this womanizing writer would be better off dead than read.,After suspicion falls on Lizzieâ€™s friend, she and her fellow book club members discover that Derek wasnâ€™t who he pretended to be. Cracking this case means going up against Lizzieâ€™s boyfriend, police chief Mark Dreyfus, and unearthing a novelâ€™s worth of nasty secrets. And as they get closer to uncovering Derekâ€™s scandalous final manuscript, someone hiding in plain sight is out to write finis to Lizzieâ€™s sleuthing for goodâ€¦
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