Saturday Mystery — Marty Donnellan

The stranger, a woman, was glaring straight at her, and seared into her face was the rawest look of hatred Hannah had ever seen.The year is 1977. Writer and amateur detective Hannah Scrabble is at the Mountain City, NC Public Library working on her latest Trick Parker thriller when she notices a gaunt, disheveled stranger glaring murderously at her from across the room. The stranger, a woman, approaches Hannah and bizarrely begins to taunt her using lines from the classic Barbra Streisand song, People. After running off with Hannah's manuscript and threatening to smash her Ford XLT pickup and kill her beloved flock of goats, the woman flees in a battered Volkswagen bus.Who is this dangerous, music-loving lunatic? How does she know so much about Hannah and why does she hate her so much? Determined to find out, Hannah discovers clues hidden within the lyrics of the song, clues which lead her to a nostalgia-filled music store, an abandoned orphanage, and a bar full of shady characters. There she risks her life to uncover the woman's identity and in the process unearths shocking secrets some think are better left alone.Rated G for General Audiences and is a novella-sized companion to the Hannah Scrabble Cozy Mystery series.