num_pages: 309
description: New York Times bestselling author Lorna Barrett delivers another compulsively page-turning Booktown Mystery in which amateur sleuth and bookstore owner Tricia Miles gets caught up in a local election that turns lethal...Its November in Stoneham New Hampshire and that means its time for the Chamber of Commerce elections. The race is already a bit heated as the long-standing Chamber president is being challenged by a former loverTricias own sister Angelica. Then local small business owner Stan Berry throws his hat in the ring.Unfortunately its not there for long when hes found murdered in the Brookview Inn. The murder weapon is a brass letter opener belonging to the inns receptionist. Tricia knows theres no way the receptionist is a killer. And when Angelica asks Tricia to help clear her name and win the election she sees little choice except to start snooping.She soon uncovers a ballot box full of lies and betrayals and a chamber full of people who had grudges against the victim. But were they serious enough to lead to murder? And who truly had something to gain? Tricia will have to do some serious sleuthing before she pulls the lever on a killer.
language: English
title: Not the Killing Type
publisher: Berkley Prime Crime