Part of Death on Demand, book 26
First published 2017
Ves Roundtree invites her potential inheritors to dinner on the island. The wealthy woman controls her late brother's fortune, which will be split among several cash-strapped locals when she dies. The dinner guests include people who desperately need the money that Ves's death would bring them. Soon after the meal, Ves takes a serious fall that someone clearly caused. Each dinner guest had reason to want Ves dead, but no one left evidence behind. The situation turns deadly when investigators find one suspect's body floating in the harbor. Then Ves vanishes completely. Bookstore owner Annie Darling and her husband Max must identify the killer among the remaining heirs. They race to solve the case before greed drives the murderer to strike again. Annie faces a calculating criminal who will kill anyone standing between them and a fortune.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, thriller
Vibes: dark, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: amateur-sleuth, race-to-solve-the-case
Setting: Island
255 pages · Kindle Edition · Berkley
Content warnings: murder