SILENT NIGHTS ARE MURDER

A woman renowned on the Jersey Shore for finding bodies is dragged into a murder case when a note left on a victim points directly at her.

Middle-aged widow Poppy McAllister helps run her aunt Ginny’s B&B in Cape May, somehow staying levelheaded among all Ginny’s odd friends. As Christmas approaches, Ginny is competing with her neighbor to see who can stuff more decorations into their yards. Poppy’s police officer pal, Amber, often leaks information to her, but nothing before has approached the note saying “Get Poppy” found on a body in a freezer at the restaurant where Poppy used to work. The news brings out her sleuthing instincts, and she’s determined to save the owner, Tim, her ex-boyfriend, and Gigi, his very pregnant wife, from arrest. The dead man is Wes Bailey, the hated owner of Deepwater Fisheries, who Poppy discovers was pressuring people to buy his stock by means fair or foul. Ever since Poppy chose her current boyfriend, Gia, over Tim, Tim’s been bitter. Poppy knows sous chefs Chuck and Tyler from when she worked at Tim’s restaurant, but the rest of the staff is new. So when Tim begs her to help clear him and Gigi by working undercover in the restaurant, she agrees. To add to her angst, Poppy’s mother, who dumped her as a child with Ginny and Grandma Emmy, books into the B&B under an assumed name and promptly begins searching the place. Poppy discovers plenty of problems among the restaurant staff and unearths lots of enemies Bailey had made, but finding the right motive is no easy task.

Keeps you guessing and laughing from beginning to end.