
He parked his tan Camry in the last available angled parking space on Main Street, unable to believe his luck finding a spot. Well, he wasn’t really sure whether the taciturn cat would care if he had ten of his Brock Hammer novels signed by the author, but Michael would be excited. PICKLES will be so excited when I get home, Michael Fleishman thought.

Along the way, they are helped and hindered by Michael’s sassy assistant, Kitty, the grumpy Sheriff Musgrave, Russell’s creepy PR rep, Norbert, and Michael’s lothario grandfather, who likes his manhattans strong and his women saucy. Soon Jazz is teaming up with Michael to clear his name. Instead, he meets the adorably awkward Michael and becomes a murder suspect. Jazz only wanted to confront his ex, Russell, over his cheating. As Lacetown’s only mortician and the county coroner, Michael is called to his first murder scene and is shocked to recognize the victim-Russell’s young lover. He is not expecting to cross paths with sexy hairdresser Jasper “Jazz” Dilworth-or become embroiled in a real-life mystery.

Michael Fleishman is excited to meet his favorite mystery writer, Russell Withingham, at Lacetown’s Literary Fest. Starting a romance among all this chaos might be the death of them.

A killer at a small-town literary festival.
