Barry Award Nominee for Best Paperback Original (1998), Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel (1998), Agatha Award Nominee for Best First Novel (1997)
This was a great mystery! Great characters, lots of suspects, location and the lead character is the deft owner of a 2 person newspaper (Gives her reason to ask questions & get involved).
I don't think this can be called a cozy mystery (Good Reads listed it as such). There were a few strong words in the book but didn't bother me!
280 Pages and 1st book in the series! Check it out, David N.