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 workings 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... Read
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