A Questionable Character
A Questionable Character by Lorna Barrett is set to be published by Penguin on May 7, 2024. This 320-page book is presented in English and continues the engaging narrative of the Booktown series. The story unfolds during a bustling summer in Booktown, where the murder of contractor Jim Stark’s right-hand man, Sanjay Arya, disrupts multiple construction projects. As Tricia Miles and her sister Angelica discover the crime scene, they are drawn into a web of suspicion surrounding Jim and his wife, raising questions about motives and relationships.
Readers will find themselves immersed in a mystery that intertwines the lives of the townspeople and the stakes of their business ventures. The narrative explores themes of amateur sleuthing and the complexities of personal and professional ties within a small community. As Tricia navigates the investigation, she must uncover the truth behind the murder before it jeopardizes not only the ongoing projects but also the future of Booktown itself.
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The murder of a local contractor may be the final nail in the coffin for Tricia Miles in the latest entry to Lorna Barrett’s New York Times bestselling Booktown series.
It’s a busy summer in Booktown. Contractor Jim Stark is in great demand: he’s overseeing a number of projects, including Angelica Miles’s newly constructed building on Main Street, finishing up the new brew pub, and gutting a stone mansion off Main Street that Angelica bought to be the world headquarters for Nigela Ricita Asssociates. It’ll house office space where her marketing staff and the rest of the NR Associates clerical personnel will work.
Tricia Miles and Angelica arrive at the mansion before their workday to see how the construction is going. They find the place unlocked and Stark’s right-hand man, Sanjay Arya, dead—bludgeoned to death. The loss of the contractor’s top man threatens all the projects in the works, which would effectively ruin the expensive marketing plan that the Chamber of Commerce has been working. Is Jim a suspect? (He’d be stupid to kill the person he depends on to keep the projects going.) But Stark also thinks his wife, who was very chummy with Sanjay, might have been cheating on him with the second-in-command, making him a likely suspect.
Once again Tricia finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation, but can she find the killer before he or she has the chance to bring the hammer down?
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