Where There's Smoke

"Where's There's Smoke is a cozy murder mystery taking place in the fictional town of Hartville. The book concentrates on the involvement of Lillian Webber and Harriet Woodside, one of Lillian's boarders, in the vivid recollection and eventually the positive identification of the man who ran over Lillian's husband and left him for dead, in the arson of some of the area's affluent summer homes, and in the murder of a young man and his girlfriend from a neighboring town.

Along with the nightmares Lillian has of that horrific evening when her husband was struck down before her eyes, two other events are taking place that will tax her faith in life and which will tie in, in a most unlikely manner. The arsonist is keeping the community in a nervous state, The ladies almost catch a man in the act of starting a fire at a local car dealership and are now worried the man saw them as well. Also about this time, a young lady from the neighboring town of Millpond approaches the Hartville Police Department and tells the officers she is looking for her boyfriend and wishes to file a missing persons report. A few days later she is found dead.

Lillian Webber and Harriet (Hattie) Woodside have a knack for getting themselves into and out of hopeless situations, but you can't help but love them for it.