Maggie Dove: 1

Susan Breen introduces a delightful new series heroine in this poignant and absorbing cozy mystery with a bite. Maggie Dove thinks everyone in her small Westchester County community knows everyone elses secrets. Then murder comes to town. When Sunday School teacher Maggie Dove finds her hateful next-door neighbor Marcus Bender lying dead under her beloved oak tree-the one he demanded she cut down-she figures the man dropped dead of a mean heart. But Marcus was murdered and the prime suspect is a young man Maggie loves like a son. Peter Nelson was the worst of Maggies Sunday School students; he was also her late daughters fiancé and hes been a devoted friend to Maggie in the years since her daughters death. Maggie cant lose Peter too. So she sets out to find the real murderer. To do that she must move past the grief that has immobilized her all these years. She must probe the hidden corners of her little village on the Hudson River. And when another death strikes even closer to home Maggie must find the courage to defend the people and the town she loves-even if it kills her.