A Slice of Rye

The Battles find murder on toast!</p><p>Fresh from their run-ins with murder and mayhem in San Miguel de Allende Mexico Jack and Penny Battle come to Rye on the seacoast of New Hampshire to learn about the real America.</p><p>Blair's Crest is a decaying summer palace filled with dysfunctional family and down the drive is a hearty baseball-playing young family with no job and fading prospects. The Battle's house forms the third side of a triangle of greed madness and murder when Philip disappears on his way to make a fortune from a stock-picking computer formula.</p><p>All these events don't add up to a wholesome view of the USA and when Jack buys a used Rolls Royce his perceptions are even more askew. Or are the motives for murder only those of most crime: emotions roused to a breaking point?</p>