Peril in the Pool House

<p class=ql-align-center><strong style=color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>A bed & breakfast haunted</strong><span style=color: rgba(166 166 166 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><strong style=color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>A guest stabbed</strong><span style=color: rgba(166 166 166 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><strong style=color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>A couple's future in ruins</strong><span style=color: rgba(166 166 166 1)> </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>Real estate rule #3: It's the rare buyer who wants to buy a haunted house. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>A grand opening for Captain's Quarters Bed & Breakfast on the outskirts of the little Chesapeake Bay town of Port Anne is creating quite a stir. Real estate agent Helen Morrisey sold the neglected Victorian to state senator candidate Eliot Davies and his wife Alison. Despite rumors of ghostly images they've toiled for months to bring the painted lady back to its prime. Now the couple is ready to celebrate and the whole town is invited. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>A piercing scream cuts through the chatter as their party winds down. Helen bolts toward the pool house with her on-again off-again love interest Detective Joe McAlister steps behind. A hysterical Alison is standing over the motionless body of one of their guests. A nine-inch pair of antique fishing shears juts from the woman's back. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>Helen takes in the shocked expressions of guests gathered at the pool edge. Why would someone want this woman dead? Has the tale of a ghost roaming Captain's Watch returned to haunt Eliot and Alison? Getting involved in another local murder investigation could be the kiss of death for her relationship with Joe. Yet she knows a murder in her friends B & B might cut their future to ribbons. Is it time to consult the expertise of her infamous Detection Club sleuths? Or should she look the other way before her own reputation is bloodied? </span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>Peril in the Pool House</em><span style=color: rgba(166 166 166 1)> is the third book in the award-winning Chesapeake Bay Mystery Series. </span></p>