For Lucy, escorting a preschool field trip to a turkey farm, baking pies for charity or entertaining her husband's difficult clients and son's college roommate for Thanksgiving dinner is all part of her routine in rural Tinker's Cove, Maine. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.ĭespite all her volunteer work and family responsibilities, not to mention her part-time reporting job for her local paper, valiant Lucy Stone manages to maintain her poise in her seventh busy outing (after Christmas Cookie Murder).

'Meier writes with sparkle and warmth.' - Chicago Sun Times 'I like Lucy Stone a lot, and so will readers.' -Carolyn Hart So what's a little investigation? But if she's not careful, she just may find herself served up as a last-minute course, stone-cold dead with all the trimmings.

Between fixing dinner for twelve and keeping her four kids from tearing each other limb from limb, Lucy has a pretty full plate already. Nolan had a habit of disagreeing with just about everybody he met.

The list of suspects isn't exactly a brief one. But this year, someone has added murder to the menu, and Lucy intends to discover who left Metinnicut Indian activist Curt Nolan deader than the proverbial Thanksgiving turkey-with an ancient war club next to his head. Tinker's Cove has a long history of Thanksgiving festivities, from visits with TomTom Turkey to the annual Warriors high school football game and Lucy Stone's impressive pumpkin pie. So what’s a little investigation? But if she’s not careful, she may find herself served up as a last-minute course, stone-cold dead with all the trimmings… “Approachable prose cozy, small-town ambiance and a down-to-earth sleuth.”- Library Journal “I like Lucy Stone a lot, and so will readers.”-Carolyn Hart “Meier writes with sparkle and warmth.Once again, Leslie Meier gives mystery fans a reason to give thanks for the eccentric charms of Tinker's Cove and the intriguing exploits of its resident amateur sleuth, Lucy Stone. The list of suspects isn’t exactly brief. But this year, someone has added murder to the menu, and Lucy intends to discover who left Metinnicut Indian activist Curt Nolan dead-with an ancient war club next to his head. Tinker’s Cove, Maine, has a long history of Thanksgiving festivities, from visits with TomTom Turkey to the annual Warriors high school football game and Lucy Stone’s impressive pumpkin pie. This novel of murder amid an old-fashioned New England Thanksgiving “ portrays small-town life both realistically and sympathetically” ( Publishers Weekly).

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