Murder by Music
(2027)(The second 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, life has settled back to normal. Clara appraises estate silver, trades gossip with her best friend Penny over fresh scones, and lets Barnaby, the cat who runs the place, believe the settee is his.
But normal never lasts long in Whispering Falls.
When a customer leaves a rosewood music box for appraisal, Clara's bare hand finds the lid before she can stop herself—and the box shows her ten seconds of its past. Snow falling past a window she's never seen. A child's hand turning the brass key. A memory that belongs to no one she knows.
Then the box's owner is found dead, and the last name in Clara's ledger is the victim's.
The music box plays a tune nobody in town can place, and its song winds straight back to the Covington estate—and to a will, a fortune, and an heir no one in Whispering Falls has spoken of in seventy years. Handsome Detective Nathan Cross wants to know why trouble keeps walking through Clara's door, and this time he's asking questions she can't answer without telling him everything.
With her ledger tying her to a murder, Penny supplying theories faster than pastries, and a killer determined to keep an old family secret buried, Clara must follow the echoes wherever they lead—before someone stops her music for good.
This is book two in the Antique Echo Cozy Mystery Series
Genre: Cozy Mystery
At Echoes Antique Shop on Mill Street, life has settled back to normal. Clara appraises estate silver, trades gossip with her best friend Penny over fresh scones, and lets Barnaby, the cat who runs the place, believe the settee is his.
But normal never lasts long in Whispering Falls.
When a customer leaves a rosewood music box for appraisal, Clara's bare hand finds the lid before she can stop herself—and the box shows her ten seconds of its past. Snow falling past a window she's never seen. A child's hand turning the brass key. A memory that belongs to no one she knows.
Then the box's owner is found dead, and the last name in Clara's ledger is the victim's.
The music box plays a tune nobody in town can place, and its song winds straight back to the Covington estate—and to a will, a fortune, and an heir no one in Whispering Falls has spoken of in seventy years. Handsome Detective Nathan Cross wants to know why trouble keeps walking through Clara's door, and this time he's asking questions she can't answer without telling him everything.
With her ledger tying her to a murder, Penny supplying theories faster than pastries, and a killer determined to keep an old family secret buried, Clara must follow the echoes wherever they lead—before someone stops her music for good.
This is book two in the Antique Echo Cozy Mystery Series
Genre: Cozy Mystery