Elusive Embezzler - Judith A. Barrett

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Résumé :
Young widow. Innkeeper. Accidental Crimebuster. Jenna inherits a charming but failing bed-and-breakfast, but for a talented accountant, running an inn that is nearly bankrupt doesn't fit into the tidiness of a balance sheet. Her fresh start is overcome by an avalanche of details that she's powerless to stop. And nothing in her accounting background prepared her for a surly landscaper who challenges her every decision and still somehow ends up in her thoughts. Her intuitive, sensitive nature, a quiet, uncanny pull she could never explain, extends to the portrait of Nettie Wyndham, her husband's ancestor, and stirs Jenna's unusual sensitivity in unsettling ways. To add to the complexities in her life, rumors swirl about a missing embezzler, and after a guest disappears, Jenna finds the guest's body. As she follows her extraordinary intuition to unravel the twisted connections between the murder and the embezzlement, Jenna gets too close to the truth. When the killer stalks her, Nettie's watchful eye may be the only warning she gets. Jenna is single minded: save the inn. The killer is single minded: kill Jenna....

Biographie:
Judith A. Barrett is an award-winning author of thriller, science fiction, and mystery novels with action and twists to spark the reader's imagination. Her unusual heroes are brilliant, talented, and down-to-earth folks who solve difficult cases and stop killers. Her novels take place in small towns and rural areas in the southern states of the US.

Judith lives in Georgia on a farm with her husband and two dogs. When she's not busy writing, she's enjoying the outdoors with her husband and dogs or watching the beautiful sunsets from her porch....

Sommaire:
A quiet inn. A buried secret. A widow who isn't ready to trust again. Widowed accountant Jenna Ross inherits the Peach Blossom Retreat, expecting bookkeeping and guests, not a mysterious visitor tied to a decade-old embezzlement case. But when a guest is found dead on the inn's property, Jenna's search for answers puts her at odds with her irritating landscaper, Ethan, who seems determined to prove she's in over her head. Now Jenna must uncover the truth before the killer decides she's the next loose end. In this slow-burn romantic suspense, love and danger intertwine as a widow discovers that listening to her instincts may be the only way to survive....