Best Be Prepared
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
A tense small town mystery that packs a big punch starring Nora Best.
Nora Best is enjoying the quiet life . . . finally. She's parked up the Airstream on a quiet stretch of beach and is now a seventh-grade teacher in a small peninsula town in the Pacific Northwest. Her biggest worry is keeping up with her quick-witted bunch of students. No drama. No danger. And most importantly – no one turning up dead.
Until they do, that is . . .
When a local environmental activist – and dad to one of her most troublesome students – is killed, Nora once again finds herself in the thick of an investigation that threatens her new-found peace. She soon uncovers that Ward's death is most likely linked to the building of the school's emergency tsunami tower – a project financed by Ward's ex-wife's new husband . . . and one that is testing the town's loyalty.
With emotions, and gossip, running high, in a community where everyone knows everyone else's secrets, Nora is in a race against time to get answers before fall storms slam their vulnerable Pacific Coast peninsula putting everyone's lives in danger!
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Florio's enthralling fourth whodunit featuring Nora Best (after 2022's Best Practices) finds the amateur sleuth, who has lived out of an Airstream trailer for years, hoping that she's found a place to settle down in a small community on a peninsula in the Pacific Northwest. She's taken a job as a seventh-grade teacher and started a romance with Luke, a guidance counselor rotating between several schools in the area. Her insights into human nature and keen observational skills are tapped again when, during a free period, one of her students finds a corpse with a head wound near school grounds. When Nora arrives on the scene, she's joined by another student, Damien, who recognizes the body as his father's. Damien's father, Ward Austin, was an environmental activist who ran a nonprofit seeking to preserve the peninsula's wildlife, a project that led to repeated clashes with other locals, including his ex-wife's new spouse, Spencer Templeton, a developer who's been pushing for approval for a new hotel. It's up to Nora to cut through small-town gossip in pursuit of firm answers. Florio never stretches credibility with Nora's talents, making it a treat to sleuth alongside her. This series merits a long run.
