The Inn on Main Street Mysteries

Download or read book The Inn on Main Street Mysteries written by James Lapak and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-10 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the second in the series narrated by the 1836 Inn and confirms that the Inn's walls can talk if only we would stop long enough to listen.The Town Hall has been burned to the ground and a charred body handcuffed to a metal chair has been found floating in the black sooty water that has filled the basement. The corpse is too burned to easily identify, but speculation is that the town clerk has died in the fire, and State Detective Pete Henderson has been called in to unravel why.Even before the body has been formally identified there are plenty of theories about what happened. Kathy Joyner, who has been the town clerk for ten years knows every one of the thousand residents in the small Maine town and is both respected for how well she does her job, and resented because she knows too much about every one's business.The most popular theory among the town gossips is blackmail. They think the arsonist must not have been willing to pay, and having murdered his blackmailer, sent the evidence up in smoke. These same people have no idea who in this rural town would have enough money to make blackmail a viable source of income, and what kind of secret could be worth murder.Pete Henderson along with his sidekick Rusty Cosswell soon discover other possible motives including a large Portland developer who wants to bring a new industry to town and needs to keep his land acquisition from becoming common knowledge.The trail Henderson must follow leads as far away as Jacksonville Florida and as close as a Christmas Tree Farm right in town. In the end the true motive is as old as murder itself.