Tiger by the Tail — Ruth McCarthy Sears

Five years ago a tree had fallen on Damon Billington, a prominent young lawyer, and crushed his legs and broken his spirit. It was then up to his sister, Lacey, only eighteen at the time, to care for the family and try to support them in the style that their mother, Letitia, would have liked.

Unskilled as she was, Lacey found it difficult to secure a position that would befit a Billington, one of the founding families of Bosbury. Her work in the town library was financially unrewarding, but it helped Lacey to forget her brother's pain and the anguish that broke her own heart when her childhood sweetheart, Anton Farrar, had left town without a word and married someone else. And now Anton was back in town. Also back in town was Dorothy Arthur, Damon's former fiancee, this time with a handsome friend, Bryan Lord, in tow. As Dorothy said, 'The stage is set from murder.' Quiet little Bosbury is rocked with crime, and Lacey and her family are embroiled in a police investigation.

Who is the culprit behind the crimes? was the question in everyone's mind, while in Lacey's heart another question repeated itself: Who is Bryan Lord, and why can't I stop thinking of him?