Family Affairs

<p><strong>From Suspect to Sleuth!</strong></p><p>When Rhode Island Attorney General Preston Knox is brutally murdered in his home</p><p>just weeks before getting elected Governor the state police immediately pull in Julius</p><p>Haddock for questioning.</p><p><br></p><p>After all Julius the now-retired chief of police in the town of Little Penwick had a beef</p><p>with the AG when Knox drummed up some fake charges and put him in jail. (Glitter</p><p>Girl Book 1).</p><p><br></p><p>But Julius didn't do it and has an unshakeable alibi-he was out having breakfast with</p><p>his son Gus Haddock the current chief in Little Penwick. So the outgoing governor</p><p>appoints Julius to the task force investigating Preston Knox's murder because she was</p><p>impressed with his recent work on a cold case (Cold Secrets Book 2).</p><p><br></p><p>And that's how Julius Haddock went from suspect to sleuth working with the state police</p><p>to track down leads and eliminate suspects one by one. Along the way Julius is befriended</p><p>by a local kid on a bike who has some family secrets of his own; and with his partner</p><p>Siggi Julius has to try and convince the last surviving member of an old Little Penwick</p><p>family to consider donating his land to the Little Penwick Land Trust. But there are old</p><p>family ghosts in the way there too.</p><p><br></p><p>Family Affairs Book 4 in the Swamp Yankee Mystery series is another page-turning</p><p>adventure of police procedural small-town relationships and family secrets. Just the kind</p><p>of stew that makes James Y. Bartlett's inventive new series so popular with readers.</p>