A MADDIE SPARKS MYSTERY (BOOK TWO)
Maddie Sparks believes she has found the perfect balance in her life—Zack, the man she loves, a book she loves writing and volunteer work at a local museum with a granddaughter she adores. An old flame from Zack’s past arrives and drives a wedge into Maddie and Zack’s romance, her writing stalls and someone murders the museum’s director just as the museum is about to return a collection of Native American artifacts to the Onondaga and Oneida nations. Standing over the dead body of the museum director is an Indigenous man from neither group who insists one of the baskets in the collection belongs to his family. The authorities believe he is the killer, but Maddie does not. With her love life on hold, Maddie and her granddaughter set out to identify the killer, but their search reveals thefts at the museum and a two-hundred-year-old family secret that is the key to the motivation behind the killing. When Maddie uncovers the history behind the feud over the basket, she knows the identity of the killer, making Maddie his next target.
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Sassy Snooping!
All these amateur sleuths yearn for the simple, artless existence of hard work coupled with rustic pleasure.
That’s why they live away from big cities, but murder and violence have a way of stalking us, even our plucky heroines, who think they’ve avoided life’s perils.
The Readers’ Favorite winners seal, five star reviews for the following books in the Eve Apple Mysteries:
Mud Bog Murder
A Sporting Murder
Old Bones Never Die
Killer Tied
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The Eve Appel mysteries and the Big Lake Mystery series take place around the swamps of the rural south. The Microbrewing series, the Laura Murphy mysteries and my standalone mystery Angel Sleuth are set in the mountains and river valleys of the north. And my short stories and novellas, north and south, complete the collections.
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