Murder Off the Books

Author Tess Harrow and her daughter,Gertrudeare starting to get a bad reputation due to their involvement in recent murder casesso Tess has come up with the perfect plan to drum up some positive press. She’ll combine her new book release and her bookstore opening into one big eventgiving her a chance to wine and dine the locals and some big press contacts. But the night before the partyTess is greeted by a surprise: her mother has come for a visitwith her much-younger new boyfriend in tow…a boyfriend Gertrude recognizes as the notorious Levi Parkera man recently connected to the deaths of three elderly widows. Tess immediately alerts Sheriff Boyd about the visitorbut it’s already too late. Levi Parker is found dead and Tess’s mother is starting to look like the prime suspect. Bernadette swears she didn’t murder Leviand Tess is doing her best to maintain her mother’s innocencebut too many coincidences keep stacking up. With the whole town seemingly against her familyit’s up to Tess to get to the bottom of the story before it’s too late.