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A SHOT OF MURDER
A D-list Florida actress investigates a homicide.
Charlotte Fortunate isn’t precisely the city of Gett’s favourite
daughter. Too many Gettians keep in mind the time she defaced the native water tower
with a suggestive replace to the city’s title. And her most memorable position throughout
her current stint in Hollywood—a herpes sufferer in an STD–drug industrial—hasn’t
helped them overlook, a lot much less forgive, her youthful hijinks. When she returns
to city to nurse her ailing grandfather, proprietor of the Fortunate Whiskey Distillery,
she finds few of her neighbors keen to offer her the time of day. Brodie Gett,
her childhood nemesis and grandson of the city’s founding household, continues to be
round to harass her. And Roger Kerrick, her highschool boyfriend, now works
as her grandpa’s chief distiller. However she by no means will get to reconnect along with her outdated flame,
as a result of the primary cask of whiskey she tries to faucet incorporates his mortal stays.
Now her chilly reception again residence poses an actual risk. Brodie’s brother,
Sheriff Danny Gett, arrests Granddad Jack on suspicion of Kerrick’s homicide.
Charlotte’s solely hope of clearing him is to pry unfastened sufficient details about
the evening of the crime from his reluctant neighbors to unmask the actual killer.
In spite of everything, she causes, “The final particular person to see Roger alive may very effectively be
the identical one who killed him.” So true, Nancy Drew. However it’s going to take greater than
Ned Nickerson in his snappy blue roadster to avoid wasting Charlotte from the perils of
monitoring down a coldblooded assassin.
Kazimer’s collection debut establishes its place within the home-again
nook of area of interest cozies, however its heroine will want extra wit and keener
perceptions to earn an encore.