Death by Auction

by Alexis Morgan

Overview

Not only did Abby McCree inherit her aunt's house in Snowberry Creek, Washington, she inherited a handsome tenant and a whole lot of trouble . . .

It's hard to say no to Tripp Blackston. That's how Abby found herself on yet another committee, organizing a bachelors' auction to raise money for Tripp's veterans group. The former Special Forces soldier is mortified when Abby enlists him to be one of the prizes, but she has a covert plan to bid on him herself. Before she can, she's foiled by a sniper bid from a gorgeous stranger, who turns out to be Tripp's ex-wife, Valerie.

Still reeling from the shock that Tripp was married and wondering what his ex is suddenly doing in town, Abby goes looking to pay the auction's emcee, radio personality Bryce Cadigan. She finds him in the parking lot, dead in his car. Valerie appears to be the last one to have seen Bryce alive, so she's the cops' best bid for suspect. When she asks Tripp for help—and lodgings—it's Abby's turn to block by inviting Val to stay with her. But did she just open her home to a murderer?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496719553
Publisher:	Kensington
Publication date:	05/26/2020
Series:	An Abby McCree Mystery , #3
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	390,249
Product dimensions:	4.10(w) x 6.70(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Alexis Morgan is a USA Today bestselling author with more than thirty traditionally published books, novellas, and short stories to her credit.

Editorial Reviews

2020-03-02
A charity event goes south when the master of ceremonies dies.

In Death by Jack O’Lantern (2019), Abby McCree got roped into chairing yet another event on Snowberry Creek’s gobsmackingly stuffed calendar of festivals, fairs, and fundraisers. Now she has to make good on her promise to handsome Tripp Blackston to run a charity auction, selling dates with the community’s most eligible bachelors and bachelorettes for the benefit of a local veteran’s association. Considering all the work it’s been to plan the auction, Abby is pretty pleased with the result. She’s persuaded Seattle radio personality Bryce Cadigan, a Snowberry Creek boy made good, into emceeing, and she’s optimistic that she’ll snag Tripp in the auction to squire her to the veteran’s ball later in the month. Too bad she’s outbid by chic out-of-towner Valerie Brunn, who turns out to be Tripp’s ex-wife. Even worse, she rushes out to the parking lot to give Cadigan his check after the auction to find him dead. Still reeling from “the shock of stumbling across another dead body,” Abby faces challenges that only a plucky divorcée who’s moved to a small town after inheriting a rambling old property from a relative can handle. She has to prevent Tripp’s ex from staying with him in his one-bedroom cottage while the police investigate Cadigan’s murder, even if it means putting up the high-maintenance Valerie in her own home. Then she has to solve the case so she can send Val packing back to LA.

Sold—but only to die-hard fans of the formula.

Kirkus Reviews