The Lies that Bind - Karen Macinerney

n nBooks, beach roses... and bodies. n nBookstore owner Max Sayers of Seaside Cottage Books is starting to settle into Snug Harbor, Maine when a local playboy plunges to his death...

and Max's best friend Denise is on the hotseat for murder. Denise is an obvious prime suspect--the dead man just nabbed the coffee house she'd been planning to buy for years right out from under her--and Max seems to be the only one in Snug Harbor who believes her friend isn't Maine's answer to Lizzie Borden.n n n nTo top things off, business at Seaside Cottage Books is not exactly putting the store at the top of the Snug Harbor bestseller list. Add in a challenging ex-husband, a mother who's fangirl crushing on her ex's new girlfriend, and a daughter who's boycotting the bookseller's own budding romance, and Max finds herself wishing she were buried in a book instead of a real-life murder mystery.

Then Max stumbles across a second body... and realizes if she doesn't think fast, this new chapter of her life may come to a very sudden end.n