Chapter & Hearse (A Booktown Mystery)

Chapter & Hearse (A Booktown Mystery) by Lorna Barrett. mass_market edition. ISBN: 9780425236017.

According to the gossip around Stoneham, New Hampshire, Tricia Miles cannot put down a real murder mystery. After all, the owner of the mystery bookstore, Havent Got a Clue, has been spending more time solving whodunits than reading them... Tricias sister, Angelica, considers herself to be the next celebrity chef. To celebrate her first cookbook, Angelica hosts a launch party, but sadly the only guest is an oversized cutout of herself. Worse than the lack of fans is a nearby gas explosion that injures her boyfriend, Bob Kelly, the head of the Chamber of Commerce. Tricias never been a fan of Bob, but when she reads that Bob is being tight-lipped about the "accident" and how it killed the owner of the towns history bookstore, its time to take action. As the incriminating details emerge, Tricia gets wrapped up in a murder that proves to be as spine-tingling as the books that line her shelves...