Murder Amongst Friends — Perley J. Thibodeau

In this 7th in the Louie/LuLu series of murder-mystery books,LuLu has a violent argument on the telephone with her long time friend who is still living in her old home town of Bangor, Maine, and she swears that she'll never have a word with him again. But as she swiftly learns that he is reported as having been killed, she is required to come to the necessary conclusion of how short a time that never again can be.