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Lucy Stone is thrilled about her youngest daughter Zoe's engagement to Chad, a rising minor league baseball player with dreamy eyes and plenty of Southern charm. Yet there's no denying the whirlwind romance has turned Lucy's life upside down in more ways than one—especially when she learns about Chad's complicated background and close ties to Tinker's Cove. The secrets and rumors are enough to send her investigative reporting instincts into overdrive . . .
Trouble really crashes in the moment Lucy meets her in-laws-to-be, Penny and Nate Nettleton. Persuasive Penny proves to be intent on taking over wedding preparations, even arranging a Tuscan-themed bridal shower before Zoe publicly announces her engagement. It's a shock when the event goes off without a hitch. But the real shock comes when prominent guest Hetty Furness, the head of the Tinker's Cove Historical Society, goes missing—only to be found dead, the victim of a brutal murder . . .
Lucy is determined to reveal who committed the vicious crime as she navigates her new reality with the Nettletons. Racing to determine if Hetty's extensive knowledge of local history—and hidden scandals—led to her demise, Lucy soon realizes she'll need to put her sleuthing talents to work like never before to guarantee wedding bells to ring for Zoe and Chad . . . and that she survives to see her daughter walk down the aisle!
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- ISBN: 9781496749260
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- ISBN: 9781496749260
- File size: 538 KB
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March 15, 2025
Reporter Lucy Stone takes time off from planning her youngest daughter's wedding to investigate the murder of her Maine town's historian. Lucy is tickled when minor league baseball phenom Chad Nettleton surprises her daughter Zoe with a 2-carat engagement ring during the couple's visit to introduce Chad to Lucy and her husband, Bill. Two weeks later, Chad's parents, Penny and Nate, show up to spend a weekend in Tinker's Cove and get to know the Stones. In the course of that brief trip, Penny meets Janice Oberman, mother of Tinker's Cove's premier wedding planner. Within weeks, there's a shower, Penny and Janice announce the date of the upcoming nuptials (much to Lucy and Zoe's surprise), and Penny rents a home in Tinker's Cove to be close to the action. Lucy is desperate to slow things down. Wedding tasks are taking their toll on Zoe and making it hard for Lucy to pursue her feature story on the wrongs done to the Metinnicut tribe that once inhabited Tinker's Cove. Meier toggles back and forth uncomfortably between the breakneck-paced wedding shenanigans and Lucy's slow, meticulous probe into the destruction of the Metinnicut enclave of Pine Tree, sometimes putting one or the other of the narratives on hold for several chapters. Things don't get any better when Hetty Furness, chair of the Tinker's Cove Historical Society, is found murdered in the society's headquarters. In addition to finding justice for the Metinnicut, Lucy has to unmask the real killer to save the Metinnicut chief's innocent son, who falls under suspicion because of his activism on his tribe's behalf. Murder, marriage, and Metinnicut history just don't mix in this meandering m�lange.COPYRIGHT(2025) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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