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Antique Shop Mysteries #18
Rigged for Murder
Maggie Watson casts a wide net for the truth when a friend’s beau is framed for a schooner captain’s murder.
Summer breezes along the Maine coast have blown the Schooner Days Celebration into Somerset Harbor, and Maggie Watson’s friend Fran is welcoming her pals from teenage sailing camp, now schooner captains, to town. But everyone's celebratory mood is given the old heave-ho when ship captain and all-around scoundrel Derek Jacobs is poisoned by a rare clam toxin and Fran's new beau, Ruben, is arrested for the crime.
While Maggie and her friends in the historical society work to turn the tide in Ruben’s favor, handsome town alderman James Bennett has asked for Maggie's help on a bona fide treasure hunt. Unfortunately, the quest takes a potentially deadly turn as it becomes clear someone else is bound and determined to claim the hidden riches at any cost. Can Maggie navigate these rough seas, or will she be overwhelmed by the swell of decades-old grudges and fresh wounds threatening to take her down with the ship?
This clever whodunit from Annie’s Antique Shop Mysteries series is a must-read for fans of cozy mysteries, antiques, New England, and female friendships.
Summer breezes along the Maine coast have blown the Schooner Days Celebration into Somerset Harbor, and Maggie Watson’s friend Fran is welcoming her pals from teenage sailing camp, now schooner captains, to town. But everyone's celebratory mood is given the old heave-ho when ship captain and all-around scoundrel Derek Jacobs is poisoned by a rare clam toxin and Fran's new beau, Ruben, is arrested for the crime.
While Maggie and her friends in the historical society work to turn the tide in Ruben’s favor, handsome town alderman James Bennett has asked for Maggie's help on a bona fide treasure hunt. Unfortunately, the quest takes a potentially deadly turn as it becomes clear someone else is bound and determined to claim the hidden riches at any cost. Can Maggie navigate these rough seas, or will she be overwhelmed by the swell of decades-old grudges and fresh wounds threatening to take her down with the ship?
This clever whodunit from Annie’s Antique Shop Mysteries series is a must-read for fans of cozy mysteries, antiques, New England, and female friendships.
- GenresMysteryCozy Mystery
202 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 17, 2025
About the author
Elizabeth Penney
96 books562 followersElizabeth Penney lives in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, where she pens novels and tries to grow things. Elements that often appear in her novels include vintage summer cottages, past/present mysteries, and the arts. After spending early years in England and France, she grew up in Maine, settings that are reflected in her books.
Elizabeth is the author of the Apron Shop Series and Cambridge Bookshop Series from St. Martin's as well as over twenty novels, short stories, and hundreds of business articles. A former consultant and nonprofit executive, she holds a BS and an MBA. She's also written screenplays with her musician husband.
She loves walking in the woods, kayaking on quiet ponds, trying new recipes, and feeding family and friends.
Elizabeth is the author of the Apron Shop Series and Cambridge Bookshop Series from St. Martin's as well as over twenty novels, short stories, and hundreds of business articles. A former consultant and nonprofit executive, she holds a BS and an MBA. She's also written screenplays with her musician husband.
She loves walking in the woods, kayaking on quiet ponds, trying new recipes, and feeding family and friends.
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Displaying 1 - 7 of 7 reviews
January 6, 2026
When an elderly eccentric leaves his fortune to the town--if they can find it--Maggie joins friends James, Ina, and Clem in the hunt--but someone seems willing to kill to find the trove first. Meanwhile, a man dies during the town's Schooner Days and the boyfriend of one of Maggie's friends is arrested for the crime.
November 6, 2024
A cozy mystery.
However, this book is written in a manner that you have: action, dialogue, action, dialogue. With an occasional sprinkle of description. Not a bad book by any means! It just has a few flow issues which can make it a bit difficult to get through. However the plot is fun, and will keep you guessing!
However, this book is written in a manner that you have: action, dialogue, action, dialogue. With an occasional sprinkle of description. Not a bad book by any means! It just has a few flow issues which can make it a bit difficult to get through. However the plot is fun, and will keep you guessing!
October 19, 2021
This is a good cozy read about a group of friends that help solve murder cases in their small Maine town. The characters are a group of ladies that run their own businesses and are good friends as well. This is about a boat captain that is poisoned and they want to find the real killer.
September 28, 2022
another cozy mystery
June 21, 2025
good little mystery am still enjoying these books
October 17, 2025
Good story. A festival in Somerset Harbor, the biennial Schooner Days celebration, definitely a mystery to happen.
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Rigged for Murder (Antique Shop Mysteries #18) by Elizabeth Penney
I was missing this book from the series that I purchased from Marketplace so I ordered it off Amazon Prime in order to finish up the series. It had Maggie, James, and the historical society ladies of Somerset Harbor in the story, plus Maggie got to meet her daughter Emily’s new love interest, Dr Austin, that she met up in Boston where she now works. This storyline revolved around old friends, competitiveness, jealousy, bullying, some underhanded bad stuff such as embezzlement, poison toxins, and subterfuge of who was really in love with whom! I enjoy these lighthearted mysteries in a world full of such heavy sad news.
Rigged for Murder (Antique Shop Mysteries #18) by Elizabeth Penney
I was missing this book from the series that I purchased from Marketplace so I ordered it off Amazon Prime in order to finish up the series. It had Maggie, James, and the historical society ladies of Somerset Harbor in the story, plus Maggie got to meet her daughter Emily’s new love interest, Dr Austin, that she met up in Boston where she now works. This storyline revolved around old friends, competitiveness, jealousy, bullying, some underhanded bad stuff such as embezzlement, poison toxins, and subterfuge of who was really in love with whom! I enjoy these lighthearted mysteries in a world full of such heavy sad news.
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