Dead Beat at the Palace: A Riverwalk Mystery by Karen Dodd

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Fiona Wade finds the body of a local politician who is also director of the fife and drum corps pinned to the wall with his drum major’s mace. Is the motive dirty politics, greed, power or something else? Fiona must unscramble the mystery, while balancing the roles of mother, grandmother, wife of a nautically inclined spouse, defender of the governor’s first lady and cook for her holiday dinner.

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