Shafted or The Toastrack Enigma: An Edgar Rowdey Cape Cod Mystery: 3 (Edgar Rowdey Cape Cod Mysteries)

400 years after the Pilgrims first landed on Cape Cod a business lunch for leaders of GreenHome LLC and the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe leads to murder. Or does it? Stopping at a yard sale on their way to Leos Back End property developer Harriet Benbow beat out two fellow guests to buy a silver Art Deco toastrack. The next morning shes found dead. Payback? A burglary gone wrong? A violent protest against GreenHomes plan to build luxury condos on an indigenous burial ground?Detective Pete Altman wonders: What kind of perp would cut up the victims scalp? Back End soup-chef Lydia Vivaldi and Wampanoag pastry chef Mudge Miles wonder: Is somebody trying to frame the Indians? Reclusive artist-author Edgar Rowdey whod rather be plotting his own Agatha Christie mystery for Golden Age magazine wonders: Where on earth does an antique toastrack fit in? In this picturesque seaside village solving a crime takes collaboration. Quansett is too diverse for everyone to like each other -- natives and wash-ashores fishermen and artists Irish Brazilian English Cape Verdean Wampanoag African-Americans -- but its so small that everyone has to get along. This brutal attack threatens to shatter their community. Lydia hopes it wont also sink her catering start-up with Mudge. With the grapevine buzzing and the police slogging through mismatched clues suspects lies and betrayals shes afraid not even the Back Ends amateur sleuths can untangle this one in time to stop the killer.