Tempest in a Treasure Trove: Book 2 of the Wildcreek Whodunits Cozy Mysteries (paperback)

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Two big ugly ceramic elephants. One very old secret. And a body in a chair in Krillo.

Greg Alatza has never met a yard sale he did not love, which is how he ends up paying a hundred and fifty dollars for a matched pair of hideous white elephants that a Vietnam veteran brought home in 1975. Everybody in Wildcreek agrees they are the ugliest things on the lake. Nobody notices that the man who sold them is dead within days.

Afton Laurie has spent a good year rebuilding a life she once tried very hard to avoid having. She has friends now, a committee to chair, and a Moose Festival to survive. Then the elephants are stolen, a second body turns up, and the sheriff arrests a man Afton knows did not do it.

The Buffies were never just souvenirs. Somebody commissioned them in Bien Hoa fifty years ago and put something inside them worth killing for, and that somebody has been patiently waiting ever since for them to surface. Now they have surfaced in the last place on earth anyone was looking, and the hunt has followed them to a town that has already buried more than its share.

The Whodunits are divided. Afton is being accused in the pages of the local paper. And the only way to trap a man who has stayed hidden for five decades is to offer him exactly what he came for.

If you love cozy mysteries with buried treasure, a fair-play puzzle you can actually solve, festival chaos, and a sleuth who earns every inch of the answer, Tempest in a Treasure Trove is your next favorite read. Grab your copy today.

• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 298 pages
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 8 inches