Just Killing Time
By (Author) Julianne Holmes
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Penguin Putnam Inc
Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.
15th January 2017
United States
General
Fiction
Crime and mystery: women sleuths
Crime and mystery fiction
813.6
Short-listed for Agatha Awards (First Novel) 2015
Paperback
304
Width 106mm, Height 171mm, Spine 20mm
164g
First in a new cozy series that ticks with excitement and mystery! Ruth Clagan may be an expert clockmaker, but she's always had a tendency to lose track of time. And when trying to solve a murder, every minute counts... Ruth's beloved grandfather instilled in her a love of timepieces. Unfortunately after her grandmother died and he remarried, Ruth and Grandpa Thom became estranged. She's wanted to reconnect after her recent divorce, but sadly they've run out of time. Her grandfather has been found dead after a break-in at his shop-and the police believe he was murdered. Now Ruth has been named the heir to Grandpa Thom's clock shop, the Cog & Sprocket, in the small Berkshire town of Orchard, Massachusetts. As soon as she moves into the small apartment above the shop and begins tackling the heaps of unfinished work, Ruth finds herself trying to stay on the good side of Grandpa's bossy gray cat, Bezel, while avoiding the step-grandmother she never wanted. But as old secrets and grudges start to surface, Ruth will have to kick into high gear to solve the killer case before someone else winds up dead...
Julianne Holmes's short stories have appeared in the award-winningLevel Best Books.Just Killing Timeis the first in her new Clock Shop mystery series.