Lynne Montgomery is checking out the sights for a future autumn tour in New England—and checking in on her mother who’s soon to open a New Hampshire bed-and-breakfast. The old place needs a lot of work, but wood rot becomes the least of their problems when workmen discover two skeletons under the basement floor. Lynne’s mother is frantic, and to save the B&B and her own sanity, Lynne needs to quickly identify the skeletons.
Taffy Cannon is the author of thirteen mysteries, including Guns and Roses (2000), which was an Agatha Award nominee and Macavity Award Best Novel nominee, and Blood Matters (2007), winner of the Best Mystery/Thriller in the San Diego Book Awards. Anyone who has ever had difficulty with a health insurance company will appreciate “Instant Karma,” her short story in the recent San Diego Noir (2011) anthology. She also runs a professional organizing business and is a multi-term president of the Friends of the Carlsbad Library, for which she manages a bookstore that earns $100,000 a year for the Library.