Final Sale A BittersweetHollow Mystery Author:Annie Irvin, Rae Sanders Secrets. We all have 'em, and in Bittersweet Hollow there's one person who wants to uncover every last one of them. That busybody is real estate agent Grace Potter, about to tie up loose ends on her most recent real estate deal, the sale of the Bittersweet Inn. Elderly Olivia Waterford is selling the stately old Victorian bed & breakfast for ... more »health reasons and it's taken the insistent urging of her two daughters, Harper Reed and Lonnie Carmichael, to get the Inn on the market.
It's October and after twenty years of local tradition, this will be the last Pumpkin Patch Festival Olivia will host on the grounds of the Bittersweet Inn. A few days before the Festival, Grace's prying around town uncovers enough dirty linen to completely ruin several not-so-innocent residents. If she broadcasts her knowledge, and she will, it will shatter the career and the marriage of young, handsome Pastor Hart who fell from grace with his pants down; she'll wreck Mickey O'Connell, the businessman whose wife will rake him over the coals and take everything he owns once she learns how his cheating gives new meaning to the phrase 'family affair'; and by shaking loose a skeleton hidden long ago in Roy and Glennis Turnbuckle's closet, she will certainly cause their middle-aged daughter's wedding plans to crash and burn before she can finally walk down the aisle with the only man who ever wanted to marry her.
Her victims know Grace won't keep her mouth shut for long but before she can start her smear campaign and throw them all to the wolves, one of them refuses to pay Grace the pound of flesh her threats have demanded and Grace learns the hard way that the really calamitous thing about opening your big mouth is the way it provokes someone to come along and shut it. With the local cops off and running in the wrong direction to find Grace's killer, Harper begins her own sleuthing, uncovering compelling evidence that the locals with ample motive had plenty of opportunity for murder. Harper lays her own plan to catch the killer. But well-laid plans can go awry, and Harper finds herself face-to-face with Grace's murderer, someone who will gladly kill again.
..."Most people would try and avoid running into Grace face-to-face so they wouldn't have to talk to her," Jack said.
Harper agreed most people would probably do just that. But someone did run into her and then bashed her in the head. Very face-to-face.