Book Description
The housing market is murderous these days. At least that's what everybody thinks when Shirley Brown, a shrewd real estate agent, is poisoned while attending a party at a prestigious St. John's address. Olga Erdos, a retired lawyer and recent immigrant from Budapest, finds the social scene in Newfoundland a puzzle of contradictions, but this doesn't stop her from teaming up with Lily, wife of Chief of Police Richard Hamilton, to tackle the mystery. While Lily navigates Olga through the maze of local marital, ex-marital, and extra-marital ties, Olga studies the mix of old colonial conservatism and new world brashness that constitutes St. John's society. Was it the competition for a prestigious chair at the university that prompted the murder or was it the Best Garden Competition sponsored by the local horticultural society that provided the motive? But the most important question of all is, who is on the guest list for the next death under glass?
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