I accepted an invitation to a police-supervised reunion with an old enemy.
What I didn’t expect was a body retrieval uncovering a second set of bones.
To dig myself even deeper, I agreed to a secret engagement.
Now I’m stuck navigating the treacherous waters of keeping secrets from my fiancée’s family and searching for a killer who’s been hiding in plain sight.
The murder happened years ago. No one has an alibi. Yet, every clue points to my future mother-in-law’s group of friends.
She already doesn’t like me.
Is justice worth getting one of her best friends arrested?
Holt Jacobs isn’t for everyone. He’s a sarcastic introvert who can never get quite enough coffee. Becoming a sarcastic sleuth was unexpected, but as an engineer, Holt is used to solving puzzles.
Warning: This book contains spoilers for Book 1, A Not So Shocking Murder.
Lily Stirling is the writer of the Holt Jacobs Mystery series.
She has spent a quarter of a century living in the Pacific Northwest. Lily was born in Idaho, but her family moved to Washington around the time she could read chapter books.
Mysteries have always delighted her, from listening to The Hardy Boys on car trips to watching episodes of Psych.
As for sarcastic families, when she’s not writing about one, she’s living in one.