As the holidays approach, bookstore owner Summer Merriwether learns a dark secret in this second volume of Maggie Blackburn\'s Beach Reads mystery series.
But this ghost from Christmas past may still be deadly in the present, and if she can\'t find the killer, Summer\'s future will be brief..
With the help of Hildy\'s plucky book club, Summer puts her scholarly smarts to work on protecting the cozy author and solving the decades-old murder.
Tidings get worse when Summer learns of her long-lost biological family\'s involvement in the crime...and still worse when the life of the book\'s author is threatened.
This doesn\'t jibe with Summer\'s memories of her usually cheery mother at all.
Worse, she soon learns that her dearly missed mother, Hildy, took a disturbingly deep interest in the case, going so far as to collect clippings and keep a journal of the dark doings.
When the local library hosts a cozy mystery panel discussion, Summer learns that one of the authors on the panel based her book on an actual Murder that shook Brigid\'s Island thirty-five years before.
But bookseller Summer Merriwether\'s Christmas cheer turns to cringing fear when she uncovers a deadly secret about her late mother--a secret someone will kill to keep.
During this season for giving, the town wakes up to a welcome throng of shoppers--and Beach Reads is no exception.
There\'s no place like home for the holidays, even if home is sleepy, beachside Brigid\'s Island, NC.
As the holidays approach, bookstore owner Summer Merriwether learns a dark secret in this second volume of Maggie Blackburn\'s Beach Reads mystery series
