A Controversial Cover

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Tricia Miles is ready to close the book on all her amateur sleuthing-she's tired of finding dead bodies and being accused of murder. But even the best laid plans often go awry. Stoneham is all abuzz when Lauren Barker, a famous children's book author, arrives for an event at the local library. Lauren is a Stoneham native, and her new book strikes some members of the town as controversial. But when Lauren is found dead from a bullet to the head after an altercation at the event, the plot twist throws Tricia right back into the middle of things. Who could possibly have wanted Lauren dead Was it Dan Reed, who had to be thrown out of the signing for spouting conspiracy theories and causing a disturbance Or could it be David Price, the recently hired children's librarian and Tricia's new boyfriend, who planned the whole thing in the first place Or could it be someone who had an old score to settle with Lauren With the suspect count climbing higher and more information about Lauren's past coming to light, will Tricia be able to give this story a happily ever after When a famous children's author is murdered at the library, Tricia Miles has to find the killer before it's too late in the latest entry to Lorna Barrett's New York Times bestselling Booktown series. Tricia Miles is ready to close the book on all her amateur sluething-she's tired of finding dead bodies and being accused of murder. But even the best laid plans often go awry. Stoneham is all abuzz when Lauren Barker, a famous children's book author, arrives for an event at the local library. Lauren is a Stoneham native, and her new book strikes some members of the town as controversial. But when Lauren is found strangled to death after an altercation at the event, the plot twist throws Tricia right back into the middle of things. Who could possibly have wanted Lauren dead Was it Dan Reed, who had to be thrown out of the signing for spouting conspiracy theories and causing a disturbance Stella Kraft, Lauren's high school teacher, who thought of the author as a protege-something Lauren violently disputed Or the mystery man who spoke to Lauren just before she was found deadWith the suspect count climbing higher and more information about Lauren's past coming to light, will Tricia be able to give this story a happily ever after

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Lorna Barrett is the New York Times bestselling author of the Booktown Mysteries, including Poisoned Pages and A Just Clause.