Murder Makes Scents

by Christin Brecher

Overview

Stella Wright loves creating candles at her Nantucket store—and she also has a burning passion for justice. Now, after visiting a perfume conference, she must solve a vial crime . . .
 
Stella and her globe-trotting mom, Millie, have come home from a perfume industry conference in Paris, where their trip was marred by witnessing the stabbing death of a young man. It’s a relief for Stella to be back on her picturesque island, with the comforting company of her cat, Tinker. But lingering danger may have followed them back across the ocean.
 
After someone breaks into her candle store, the Wick & Flame, Stella starts feeling spooked. And just as things threaten to ignite, Millie suffers a blow to the head. Stella receives an anonymous note claiming that her mother smuggled a secret formula out of France—and threatening her life if it isn’t returned. Now Stella’s picked up the scent of a cold-hearted criminal and an intriguing puzzle, and things are about to get wicked . . .

Praise for Murder’s No Votive Confidence
 
“A charming mystery with believable, likeable characters. Check it out.”
—Suspense Magazine

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496721419
Publisher:	Kensington
Publication date:	02/25/2020
Series:	Nantucket Candle Maker Mystery , #2
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	217,075
Product dimensions:	4.10(w) x 6.60(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Christin Brecher was born and raised in New York City. The idea to write the Nantucket Candle Maker series sprang from her life-long connection to the small island off the coast of Massachusetts. Spending summers there as a child, Christin read from her family’s library of mystery novels, after which she began to imagine stories inspired by the island’s whaling heyday, its notoriously foggy nights, and during long bike rides to the beach. After many years in marketing for the publishing industry, followed by years raising her children, The Nantucket Candle Maker Mysteries are Christin’s debut series. Visit her at www.christinbrecher.com.

Editorial Reviews

"Murder Makes Scents is a fun, action-packed read. The story line is a bit more internationally based than many cozy mysteries, but Christin Brecher delivers a solid and very entertaining story line. I look forward to future visits with the characters, the town, and the Wick & Flame shop!"
—Fresh Fiction

From the Publisher

2019-12-23
Die-hard Yankee candle maker Stella Wright (Murder's No Votive Confidence, 2018) gets caught up in a trans-Atlantic murder plot.

Stella thoroughly enjoys her trip to Paris even though her mother, perfume expert Millie Wright, who's scheduled to speak on a panel entitled "The Art of Scent Extractions" at the World Perfumery Conference, gets preempted by a murder. Sadly, once they're back home in Nantucket, things get even weirder. Stella receives an anonymous note threatening her mom if Stella doesn't turn over a secret formula hidden in Millie's bag. Her mom can't help because she's in the hospital courtesy of an overenthusiastic attempt by Stella's cat, Tinker, to befriend her. While trespassing on a suspicious sailboat, Stella meets U.S. Agent Sarah Hill, who warns her that well-known anarchist Rex Laruam plans to disrupt the upcoming Peace Jubilee using a stolen formula he secreted in Millie's bag after he stabbed the agent guarding it back in Paris. Ignoring the advice of her friend Andy Southerland, a Nantucket cop, to leave detection to the professionals, Stella tries to unmask the elusive Laruam. As she spies on a bevy of unlikely suspects, the plot spirals further and further out of control: There's a Canadian couple staying at an Airbnb run by Stella's cousin Chris who whisper sweet but suspicious nothings in the dark, a shovel-wielding schoolmarm, a gang of old geezers who have a collective crush on Millie, a surprise 30th-birthday party planned by Stella's beau, Peter Bailey, and an even more surprising impromptu airplane ride.

Utter non-scents.

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