Killer Tied
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Publisher Description
Eve Appel Egret is adjusting to married life with Sammy and their three adopted sons in Sabal Bay, Florida. While still running her consignment stores, she is going pro with her sleuthing by becoming an apprentice to a private detective.
Until her marriage, Eve’s only “family” was her grandmother Grandy, who raised her after her parents died in a boating accident. Now, in addition to her husband and sons, she has a father-in-law who clearly dislikes her. Sammy’s father, a full-blooded Miccosukee Indian long presumed dead, has emerged from the swamps where he’s been living like a hermit, and he isn’t happy about Eve's marriage to his half-Miccosukee, half-white son.
As for Eve’s family, are her parents really dead? A woman named Eleanor claims to be Eve’s half-sister, born after her mother faked a boating accident to escape her abusive husband, Eve’s father. Then Eleanor’s father turns up dead in the swamps, stabbed by a Bowie knife belonging to Sammy’s father, Lionel. Strange as Lionel Egret is, Eve knows he had no motive to kill this stranger. In order to clear him, Eve must investigate Eleanor's claims, and she might not like what digging around in her family’s past uncovers.
Book 6 in the Eve Appel Mystery series.
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At the start of Diehl's entertaining if overly busy sixth Eve Appel mystery (after 2017's Old Bones Never Die), two people walk into the Sabal Bay, Fla., office of PI-in-training Eve within minutes of each other: Henry Montrose, looking for his daughter, Eleanor; and Eleanor herself, who's searching for her mom, who she claims is also Eve's mother a real conundrum considering Eve's parents supposedly died before Eleanor was even born. Meanwhile, Eve's father-in-law, Lionel Egret, takes her three orphaned nephews on a camping trip into the swamp where Lionel has spent the last 30 years completely out of contact with the family; the foursome later return to report the discovery of a dead body. Frida, Eve's friend on the Sabal Bay police force, wants to bring Lionel in for questioning, but he vanishes. Another plot line involves Eve and mob boss Nappi Napolitani. Too many threads in too many directions make it next to impossible for newcomers to follow the action, but series fans will enjoy catching up with Eve and friends.