Zoey is a vocal advocate for turning four blocks of Main Street into a pedestrian mall on summer weekends. Other shop owners, including her next-door neighbor, are vehemently opposed. Could a small-town fight provoke such destruction? When a murder follows the break-in, it's up to Julia to dig through the secrets and lies to uncover the truth.
Julia is a bit stuck in between stages of her life ... recently she’s lost her apartment, moved back in with her mother, ended a relationship and is helping out with her family’s clambake business while figuring out what’s next.
Things in in Busman's Harbor, Maine, start to heat up when local business owners start arguing over a plan to turn a few downtown blocks into a pedestrian mall on summer weekends. Some love the idea while others hate it. Julia’s sister, Livvie, works at a pottery studio owned by Zoey, who’s all for the pedestrian mall. Her next-door neighbor, Phinney, is one of the loudest opponents.
When the pottery studio is vandalized and then someone ends up murdered, suspicion quickly falls on Zoey. Julia doesn’t believe Zoey could be guilty so she decides to dig around herself.
This story was written in first person perspective in Julia's voice. It's a quick read and a cozy mystery so there is no violence, swearing or adult activity. At the end of the book, there are recipes that were mentioned during the story including butterscotch cookies, lobster stew and mushroom soup. The "whodunnit" was a bit of stretch but I was okay with that. It's been a while since Julia had broken up with Chris, her boyfriend of a couple years, and I thought she spent a bit too much time still dwelling on it. It seems, though, there are a couple new possibilities entering her life.
This is the tenth (of 12) in the Maine Clambake Mystery series. It works as a stand alone so you don't have the read the previous ones to know what's going on. I started the series recently and will keep moving through (only two more to go!).
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