Description

One country fair. Two dead bodies. Hundreds of suspects. Avery Holmes is chagrined when the debut of her thriller, The Spy Wore Heels is held at Northumberland County’s Agricultural Fair but when a body is dug up during the plowing match, her book launch goes from bad to worse. Agent Lannister Foote vanished last year under mysterious circumstances that CSIS analyst Elliot Marks refused to investigate. That the missing Foote turned up (literally) is not surprising to Marks. But who is the killer? A farmer’s field hints at someone local. Someone they all know. Someone who is at the scene the moment the corpse is unearthed. And then another body is discovered in the corn maze – this time bizarrely hung up like a scarecrow. The fair-goers and organizers are starting to panic. With the sprawling five-day event under threat and pressure from the big commercial farming interests to solve the murders and fast, the St. Ives Book Club rally together to uncover a shocking secret.