With baited breath
Subtitle: a lotus bay mystery
By: Lorraine Bartlett
Publisher: Polaris Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: [Woodbridge, Va.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9781940801070
Subjects: Fishing baits; Mystery; Murder; Retail Stores; Fishing bait industry; Fiction
Description: Tori Cannon and her grandfather, Herb return from her grandmother's funeral, and it's with sadness that she learns the bait ship and small motel they ran has fallen on hard times. Jammed into one of the motel's units is the body of one of Herb's customers, his mouth filled with spikes. The victim has not enemies, except for maybe the rich woman who wanted to level his eyesore of a home. But he also had a daughter who's resentful her father wasn't a major force in her life, and some friends who were anything but friends. Tori's friend, Kathy, arrives to help spruce up the property, and the two of them find themselves mixed up in the petty jealousies and deadly consequences that murder entails. Can they save the bait ship and find a murderer or will they, too, sleep with the fishes?
Table of contents: title: Panty raid : a Tori Cannon-Kathy Grant mini mystery --; title: With baited breath.