Dead And Breakfast — Robert Nordan

MURDER OVER EASY

Mavis Lashley, being a widow of a certain age, is rather set in her routine. But when her oldest and dearest friend, Eileen Hollowell, needs her, right away she's on a bus rolling through North Carolina, no questions asked. Upon arriving at Eileen's beautiful mountain farm, Mavis senses immediately that something is terribly wrong.

Still full of grit and good humor, Eileen has decided t turn her home into a bed-and-breakfast. But ugly acts of sabotage, and worse, have unnerved her. While Mavis surreptitiously puts her sharp eyes and plain common sense to the situation, the body of a local teenager is found on Eileen's property and her grown but mentally impaired son is suspected. Mavis knows poor Claude wouldn't hurt a fly--but she's beginning to suspect who just might murder an innocent girl. And who might be keeping the kinds of secrets that are worth killing to hide.