The eighth in this original series featuring indomitable
ninety-two-year-old sleuth Victoria Trumbull completely
charms.
Victoria discovers a neighbor's body in the home of one
of Martha's Vineyard's three town assessors. The assessors
have been skimming off tax money from wealthy landowners
and stashing it in their own retirement funds. Then the
private pilot of the not-so-holy clergyman husband of one
of these landowners turns up dead, floating in his employer's
pond, his face gnawed by snapping turtles. Finally, searching
for old documents in the attic of Town Hall, Victoria discovers
a third body, that of the long-missing assessors' clerk.
In order to tie all the threads together and solve the murders,
Cynthia again teams up with her old friend and rival, Emery
Meyer, now working as the landowner's chauffeur. It's a
dangerous task, but nothing will deter Victoria from what
she sees as her duty to the island and its citizens.
Cynthia Riggs has woven another entertaining mystery, deftly
infused with the flora and fauna of her beloved Martha's
Vineyard.
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