The Blue Goose Is Dead — Helen Goodman

TROUBLED WATERS

It's a beautiful, languid North Carolina summer, and divorced teacher Allison Aldridge hopes a visit to the Blue Goose Lodge on Lake Lucia will rejuvenate her sagging spirits. But instead of offering serenity, the Blue Goose is embroiled in a family feud: old, ornery, ailing Aunt Bess plans to sell the lodge to developers. But the morning she is supposed to sign the papers, she is found poisoned in her bed.

No one at the lodge is above suspicion by investigating-detective Fred Sawyer, except perhaps Allison, with whom he has found a kindred spirit... and an intuitive observer of an increasingly devious crime. When a twelve-year-old girl goes missing, fears escalate, and soon it appears everyone at the Blue Goose Lodge has a secret to hide...especially the killer.