Author: Beth Gutcheon
Publisher: William Morrow
Date of publication: May 2016
Indulging their pleasure in travel and new experiences,
recently retired private school head Maggie Detweiler and her old friend, socialite
Hope Babbin, are heading to Maine. The trip—to attend a weeklong master cooking
class at the picturesque Victorian-era Oquossoc Mountain Inn—is an experiment
to test their compatibility for future expeditions.
Hope and Maggie have barely finished their first aperitifs
when the inn’s tranquility is shattered by the arrival of Alexander and Lisa
Antippas and Lisa’s actress sister, Glory. Imperious and rude, these Hollywood
one-percenters quickly turn the inn upside-down with their demanding behavior,
igniting a flurry of speculation and gossip among staff and guests alike.
But the disruption soon turns deadly. After a suspicious
late-night fire is brought under control, Alex’s charred body is found in the
ashes. Enter the town’s deputy sheriff, Buster Babbin, Hope’s long-estranged
son and Maggie’s former student. A man who’s finally found his footing in life,
Buster needs a win. But he’s quickly pushed aside by the “big boys,” senior law
enforcement and high-powered state’s attorneys who swoop in to make a quick
arrest.
Maggie knows that Buster has his deficits and his strengths.
She also knows that justice does not always prevail—and that the difference
between conviction and exoneration too often depends on lazy police work and
the ambitions of prosecutors. She knows too, after a lifetime of observing
human nature, that you have a great advantage in doing the right thing if you
don’t care who gets the credit or whom you annoy.
About Beth Gutcheon
Beth Gutcheon is the critically acclaimed author of eight
previous novels: The New Girls, Still Missing, Domestic
Pleasures, Saying Grace, Five Fortunes, More
Than You Know, Leeway Cottage, and Good-bye and Amen.
She is the writer of several film scripts, including the Academy-Award nominee The
Children of Theatre Street. She lives in New York City.
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