The Ransom Enigma

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Jo and JJ Rodreguiz finished their vacation dream home in Magnolia Bluff. To celebrate their accomplishment they invite the town residents to their housewarming.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Emails are sent. Lily offers to provide all the side dishes to complement the barbeque. Chief Tommy Jager bartends until the last guest leaves. The teenagers act as servers. Guests dance outside until the wee hours. Toasts are made to honor JJ and Jo's dearest friends. Max the Labrador will clean up the crumbs.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>After the last guest departs JJ finds a housewarming gift addressed to Jo. She excitedly opens it and gasps with dismay. Someone left behind not a present but a blackmail letter. Jo crumbles into tears fearing they must sell and never return. Her outraged husband swears to kill the wretched blackmailer. Unfortunately the Chief of Police cannot unhear the threat.</span></p><ul><li><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Two days later the police find JJ unconscious next to a dead man.</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Who will help her navigate this investigation?</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Who knows the blackmailer?</span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>All the world's problems rest on her shoulders as her greatest love lies in a coma.</span></p>