SECOND HAND SECRETS

Its Christmas in Hollowmere, Vermont, and Ruthie Vances swap meet has a new organizer. After thirty-one years of card tables, hot cider and secondhand treasures, wealthy newcomer Loretta Finch has taken it over with a clipboard, a checkbook and a list of rules.

Then Loretta raises a mug of Ruthies cider "to the woman who started it all," and by three oclock shes dead.

The poison is Ruthies own heart medication. The mug is Ruthies own mug. And the county prosecutor wants somebody arrested before Christmas.

Clockmaker Nell Thorne knows Ruthie didnt do it. Proving it will take every trick from her old job as an insurance fraud investigator, a dead photographers boxes of negatives, a sheriff who has finally learned how she takes her coffee, and one more listen to an antique clock that stopped at two minutes to ten.

Because the deeper Nell digs into Hollowmeres old photographs, the clearer it gets that this murder didnt start at the swap meet. It started on a snowy December night twelve years ago, and somebody will do anything to keep that night buried.

Second Hand Secrets is the second book in the Hollowmere Clock Shop Mysteries, a cozy series with a stubborn heroine, a slow-burn sheriff, a one-eared cat with opinions, and clocks that remember everything. Each book is a complete mystery.

Complete mystery. No cliffhangers. No gore, no explicit scenes. A slow-burn romance. A town youll want to move to.