Synopses & Reviews
Victoria Trumbull, the ninety-two-year-old poet/sleuth, discovers a neighbors body in the home of one of the three town assessors. The assessors have been skimming off tax money from wealthy landowners and stashing it in their own special retirement funds. Then the private pilot of the not-so-holy clergyman husband of one of these landowners is found dead, floating in his employers pond, his face gnawed by snapping turtles. Finally, searching for old documents in the attic of Town Hall, Victoria discovers a third body, that of the long-missing assessors clerk. In order to tie all the threads together and solve the murders, Cynthia again teams up with her old friend and rival, Emery Meyer, now working as the landowners chauffeur.
Its another entertaining mystery, as only Riggs can spin it, infused with the flora and fauna of Marthas Vineyard.
Synopsis
When a neighbor's body is found in the home of one of the three town assessors, Victoria Trumbull teams up with her old friend and rival, Emery Meyer, to get to the bottom of the case, in this entertaining mystery infused with the flora and fauna of Martha's Vineyard.
About the Author
Cynthia Riggs, a thirteenth-generation Islander, lives on Martha's Vineyard in her family homestead, which she runs as a bed-and-breakfast catering to poets and writers. She has a degree in geology from Antioch College and an MFA in creative writing from Vermont College, and she holds a U.S. Coast Guard Masters License (100-ton).