Hit and Run
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Publisher Description
AnnaLise’s philandering father’s attempt to ‘do right’ by his many heirs goes deadly wrong in this page-turning thriller set in North Carolina.
Journalist AnnaLise Griggs' return to her hometown in North Carolina's western mountains has led to some unexpected surprises – most notably the discovery that legendary womanizer Dickens Hart is her birth father, and she an heir to Hart's huge fortune.Founder of the White Tail Lodge – a High Country knock-off of the Playboy concept – Hart now claims he wants to ‘do right’ by any other children he may have fathered. To that end, he's invited all his former lovers and potential heirs, including AnnaLise and her own mother, Daisy, to what Hart envisions as a festive Thanksgiving weekend at the sprawling lakeside mansion.
But not everybody is in a celebratory mood, and when a body is discovered dead in the bed, AnnaLise is left with the impossible task of identifying the killer.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Anthony Award finalist Balzo's spirited third Main Street Murder mystery (after 2012's Dead Ends), Wisconsin journalist AnnaLise Griggs is still visiting her hometown, Sutherton, N.C., where she's acknowledged as the love-child of the wealthiest man in town, Dickens Hart. The proprietor of a "North Carolina High Country rip-off of the Playboy Club concept," Hart wants to locate any other children he may have fathered, and an elaborate Thanksgiving weekend is planned for past loves and their appropriate-aged off-spring. Before the turkey is served, Hart is found lying naked in bed with his head bashed in and AnnaLise is the prime suspect. The supporting cast includes several colorful Sutherton citizens and a motley group of potential heirs accompanied by their hopeful mothers. AnnaLise will remind Southern cozy fans of Kathleen Haines's Sarah Booth Delaney, Carolyn Hart's Annie Darling, and Margaret Maron's Deborah Knott.
