Small-Town Secrets
Pamela Tracy
Harlequin Heartwarming, Jun 1 2015, $6.50
ISBN: 9780373367276
In Scorpion Ridge, Arizona, Twice Told Tales used bookstore owner Yolanda
Sanchez follows the smoke to a woman puffing on a cigarette days before her
grand opening. The seasoned smoker states
she seeks proof that can only be found in an old history book on the town;
Yolanda says she has not unpacked all the books yet. Yolanda thinks of her pragmatic mom who’s
frugal and all business-like lifestyle she emulated. Just before her mom died, she advised her
daughter to follow her dream. Thus with
her inheritance she converted the family Victorian into a bookstore. The smoker explains she is staying with
relatives, the Ventigmila family who along with the Moore clan founded the
town.
Although radically different in demeanor than his employer whom he
knew in school, Adam Snapp also left Scorpion Ridge to come home for a
parent. He returned when his dad became
ill and obtained work renovating Yolanda’s home into Twice Told Tales. They become engrossed in the smoker’s mystery
especially when it shockingly agitates their grandparents and the other elderly
who insist the smoking customer died decades ago.
The love subplot takes a backseat to the intriguing enigma of whom
the first customer is, the history of the town, and a historiographer’s theory
of relativity when each person interviewed provides a different perspective to
what happened years ago.
Leisurely-paced, Pamela Tracy’s return to Scorpion Ridge (see What Janie
Saw, Katie’s Rescue and Holiday Homecoming) is an entertaining romantic
mystery.
Harriet Klausner
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