A bookstore owner and her husband hunt for hidden treasureâand a killer: âThis tight, Agatha Christieâstyle puzzler will keep readers guessing to the end.â âPublishers Weekly
In this âscintillatingâ mystery by the New York Timesâbestselling Agatha Award winner (Publishers Weekly), a frightened caller asks for help and says that sheâs hidden something in the South Carolina antebellum house that Max and Annie Darling are restoring. Annie hurries to the womanâs homeâonly to discover sheâs been murdered.
Evidence links the dead woman to a fortune in gold coins that has recently gone missing. When the victimâs son is accused, Max and Annie plunge wholeheartedly into the case. Are the coins hidden in Annie and Maxâs house? The intruder who shoots at Max seems to think so. And when Annie discovers the secret of their old house, death arrives at their door . . .
âThe reigning monarch of the amateur sleuth mystery.â âCleveland Plain Dealer
âAbsorbing.â âKirkus Reviews