Malcomb Whitney is the esteemed editor who gave reporter Peter MacAlister a job covering the grimier streets of his city on New England’s South Coast. Now Malcomb needs Peter’s help. Because that’s what Peter does – help people who can’t help themselves.
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“The only time I met Margot Constant was at her father’s funeral, a few years back, and I’ll tell you right now she was a serious looker. It was the rest that didn’t impress me. So when I saw Margot walk through Eddy’s open door I felt a sudden sense of déjà vu, the hair-raising kind that pops nerve endings and clangs alarms. She paced quickly toward me, seeming to pick up speed as her slim hips swished snug, faded denim. She wore a Western shirt and cowboy boots. He fiery auburn hair flashed back. I turned and watched. She strode up to me and stopped. ‘Malcomb told me you’d be here.’ Uh oh.”
Margot needs Peter’s help. That is, Margot and her family’s trust, which Malcomb had married into. It appears she and her equally spoiled boyfriend, Chas, may have been hoodwinked by developers seeking investors for their zen community. Now Malcomb’s mother-in-law, Katherine, the matriarch of the Marple Family Trust, wants Peter to get her family’s million dollars back. And one does not say no to Katherine Marple Constant.
Soon, Peter sets off to Manchester, Vermont, the setting of the third novel in the New England-based Peter MacAlister Mystery series. With his partner, aging attorney Mory Wilbur, at his back, he sets off to a place he’s never been, into a world the likes of which he’s never known. Corrupt financiers, questionable town elders, a disco-dancing architect called Elon, a mountain of an enforcer by the name of Edgar, and – oh yeah – the shocking murder of a principal player, stand between him and his mission – recover a million bucks. Anything over that he gets to stick into his own pocket.
Book cover art and design by John Cardinal
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