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

“Now, I need a nap,” Carl said when they finished eating.


“You can nap in the car on our way to the cabins,” Garry replied. “Which reminds me, I need to get the map so we know where we’re going.”


He did, and leaving a very disconsolate dog behind, they piled into his car.12


“We can’t drive right up to the cabins,” Wylie said once they were on the road. “If we’re on the right track and he’s holding Emma at one of them, he’ll hear us coming.”


“It’s afternoon,” Garry replied. “I doubt whoever it is will be there. Everyone on our list has a job so they’ll be at work.”


“Except Len,” Wylie said after running through their suspects. “The restaurant’s closed today.”


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