Early October is winding down time in Busmans Harbor, Maine, but theres nothing relaxing about it for Julia Snowden. Between busloads of weekend leaf peepers at the Snowden Family Clambake and a gut renovation of the old mansion on Morrow Island, shes keeping it all together with a potentially volatile skeleton crewuntil one of them turns up dead under the firewood. When the Russian demo team clearing out the mansion discovers a room thats been sealed off for decades, Julias baffled as to its purpose and what secrets it might have held. Tensions are already simmering with the crew, but when one of the workers is found murdered, things come to a boil. With the discovery of another bodyand a mysterious diary with Cyrillic text in the hidden roomthe pressures on Julia to dig up a real killer fast. But shell have to sort through a pile of suspects, including ex-spouses, a spurned lover, and a recently released prisoner, to fish out one clammed-up killer.
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