Grace Wheaton is the curator and manager of a tourist attraction called Marshfield Manor, which is nestled in tiny Emberstowne, North Carolina. The owner of the estate, Bennett Marshfield, has bequeathed his estate to the town, but in the meantime, he wants to make it the best it can be. Grace has talked him into having large parts of his collection of artifacts digitized by a film crew in order to immortalize the items, plus to have DVDs made to sell in their giftshop, which is lacking in high-quality keepsake items.
One problem at Marshfield Manor is that some valuable items in Bennett's collection have gone missing, and it's not clear who's to blame: the film crew, Bennett's attention-seeking stepdaughter, Hillary, or someone else. While trying to get a handle on that, tragedy strikes some members of a tourist group going through the manor. In Grace's short time as manager, there have already been some deaths [in other books in the series], and Grace has dealt with the police department way too often. She can't help but try to help the police–which has its good cop and its not-so-good cop–solve the latest murder, but she also finds herself easing her recent heartbreak by falling for a guy who was in one of the tour groups.
This is a fast-read, filled with the requisite amounts of love interest, quirky people, and possible villains, plus a nice smattering of suspense.
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