9780615408552
Live Free or Die
Author: Jessie Crockett
Publisher: Jessie Crockett
Publication Date: 30 September, 2010
ISBN: 9780615408552
Pages:
Subjects: Mystery
Available as: , E-Book - Multiple Formats, 978-0-615-40855-2
Description:
The way she sees it, volunteer fire chief Gwen Fifield's life is about as good as can be. Sure, she's gained twenty pounds and her property taxes increased just in time for Christmas. But, her basement didn't flood with the fall rains for the first time in years and the general store has started delivering pizza. Yup, by Winslow Falls, NH standards it's pretty darn good. That is, until an arsonist lets loose in the village and Gwen finds a body sizzled like a sausage in the smoldering remains of the local museum.With more experience handing out burn permits than solving arsons Gwen is eager to turn over the case to State Fire Marshal's Investigator Hugh Larsen. But things are seldom that easy; Hugh needs her take on the villagers just as much as she needs him in order to solve the case. Fortunately for the townspeople, a newly arrived immigrant family provides ideal suspects. When an artifact from the burnt museum shows up in the possession of one of the foreigners, the town readily blames the "people from away". But clues from the past convince Gwen the town she's always trusted is harboring a home-grown murderer
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