When Wylie Lewis sells his half of the detective agency he owned to move into the house his grandfather willed him in the small town of Earlston, he expects he'll have work to do refurbishing and redecorating it. He doesn't expect that Garry Parish, the handsome restaurant owner who lives two doors down, would offer his assistance, as well as put him in contact with Carl, a handyman who could do most of the manual labor.<br><br>Wylie also doesn't expect to be the sheriff's prime suspect when Nelly, a young woman who works for Garry, disappears a week after Wylie arrives in town. As if that isn't bad enough, a second woman, Emma, vanishes a few days later.<br><br>Wylie, Garry, and Carl team up to try to locate them before the sheriff decides to arrest Wylie, but things take a deadly turn when they find Nelly's body. Will they be able to discover who the killer is in time to save Emma, while Wylie and Garry deal with their growing attraction to each other? Or will Wylie become the killer's next target, with deadly results?

New Man in Town

“I don’t think so. You met everyone except Kingman before Nelly was taken, right?”


Wylie thought about it and shook his head. “I met Owen the morning of the search. Of course Carl probably told him about me since he was working on my house by then.”


Ziggy, who was still busy ‘digging to China’, suddenly popped out of the hole and made a mad dash to the gate in the fence that separated the back and front yards, barking loudly.


“I’d say we have company,” Garry said at the same moment Carl told Ziggy to behave.


After letting himself in, grabbing Ziggy’s collar to keep him from escaping before he could shut the gate, Carl settled in the last of the lawn chairs. “Got some left for me?” he asked, gesturing toward the coffee cups.


“Of course.” Garry went into the house, returning with another cup and the coffee pot. After filling Carl’s cup, and refilling his and Wylie’s, he asked, “Did you talk to Kingman?”


Chapter 44