2012, Berkley Hardcover
Series: Book 22 of Death on Demand
Luckily, fellow volunteer Gretchen Burkholt agrees to sub for her. The signing goes well, but Gretchen interrupts the event multiple times, leaving voice mails about scandalous news she's dying to share. Even though Gretchen tends to be excitable, Annie heads over to Better Tomorrow, where she finds Gretchen dead on the floor, an axe by her side.
Annie enlists the help of her husband, Max, to piece together a puzzle involving an overturned kayak, a stolen motorboat, a troubled love affair, and a reckless teenager. And she must tread carefully in her investigation, because a killer is on the loose, and that killer works well in the foggy days of winter...
The Good: Annie feels responsible for Gretchen's death, and when Annie takes on that kind of guilt or accountability, you get to see a slightly different side of her. She's not quite as self-assured and together in Death Comes Silently and that's sort of endearing.
The Bad: Henny acted so far out of character that it verged on impossible to believe. Her motives were solid and on point, but her actions just didn't mesh with anything we have learned about her in the last 21 books.
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