Now in paperback—bookshop owner Tricia Miles learns that murder is no walk in the park in the New York Times bestselling Booktown Mystery series.

While walking her sister’s Bichon Frise, Tricia is led to a man lying in a gazebo and recognizes Pete Renquist, the president of the Stoneham Historical Society, who appears to be suffering from cardiac arrest. When Pete later dies in the hospital, the discovery of a suspicious bruise and a puncture mark on his arm suggests he may have been murdered.

Haunted by Pete’s enigmatic last words, Tricia considers who had a motive to kill her friend. Did Pete take his flirting too far, only to have a jealous husband teach him a lesson? Or did he discover something in the town’s historical records that his killer wanted kept secret? Tricia is determined to get to the bottom of things before someone else becomes history…