Murder Around the Clock
(2027)(The third book in the Echo Antique Cozy Mystery series)
A novel by Carolyn Ridder Aspenson
Clara Vance knows that every antique carries a story. In Whispering Falls, she's the only one who can hear them . . .
At Echoes Antique Shop on Mill Street, business hums along the way Clara likes it—quiet mornings, estate appraisals, and Barnaby holding court on the settee like he pays the rent.
Then a gold pocket watch changes everything.
When a retired schoolteacher brings the watch in to sell, Clara's bare hand brushes the case—and ten seconds of its past flood through her. A man's voice raised in anger. A hand slamming a ledger shut. A promise made at midnight that someone never intended to keep.
Days later, a body turns up on the grounds of the old mill. It's the one man in Whispering Falls who swore he'd never set foot in town again.
The watch keeps perfect time, but its history doesn't add up. Every echo Clara chases winds deeper into a feud the town buried decades ago, and handsome Detective Nathan Cross keeps noticing that Clara knows things she has no business knowing. Sooner or later, he's going to ask the question she can't answer.
With suspects lying about where they were and when, Penny dishing out theories with the morning scones, and a killer counting on the past staying buried, Clara must piece together what the watch witnessed—before her own time runs out.
This is book three in the Antique Echo Cozy Mystery Series
Genre: Cozy Mystery
At Echoes Antique Shop on Mill Street, business hums along the way Clara likes it—quiet mornings, estate appraisals, and Barnaby holding court on the settee like he pays the rent.
Then a gold pocket watch changes everything.
When a retired schoolteacher brings the watch in to sell, Clara's bare hand brushes the case—and ten seconds of its past flood through her. A man's voice raised in anger. A hand slamming a ledger shut. A promise made at midnight that someone never intended to keep.
Days later, a body turns up on the grounds of the old mill. It's the one man in Whispering Falls who swore he'd never set foot in town again.
The watch keeps perfect time, but its history doesn't add up. Every echo Clara chases winds deeper into a feud the town buried decades ago, and handsome Detective Nathan Cross keeps noticing that Clara knows things she has no business knowing. Sooner or later, he's going to ask the question she can't answer.
With suspects lying about where they were and when, Penny dishing out theories with the morning scones, and a killer counting on the past staying buried, Clara must piece together what the watch witnessed—before her own time runs out.
This is book three in the Antique Echo Cozy Mystery Series
Genre: Cozy Mystery