Elusive Embezzler — Judith A. Barrett

Young widow. Innkeeper. Accidental Crimebuster.Jenna inherits a charming but failing bed-and-breakfast, but for a talented accountant, running an inn that is nearly bankrupt doesn't fit into the tidiness of a balance sheet. Her fresh start is overcome by an avalanche of details that she's powerless to stop. And nothing in her accounting background prepared her for a surly landscaper who challenges her every decision and still somehow ends up in her thoughts.Her intuitive, sensitive nature, a quiet, uncanny pull she could never explain, extends to the portrait of Nettie Wyndham, her husband's ancestor, and stirs Jenna's unusual sensitivity in unsettling ways.To add to the complexities in her life, rumors swirl about a missing embezzler, and after a guest disappears, Jenna finds the guest's body. As she follows her extraordinary intuition to unravel the twisted connections between the murder and the embezzlement, Jenna gets too close to the truth.When the killer stalks her, Nettie's watchful eye may be the only warning she gets.Jenna is single minded: save the inn. The killer is single minded: kill Jenna.