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Murder in Plain Print

Murder in Plain Print

Donnelly, Claire

Paperback

Mystery & Thriller

ISBN13: 9798190747614
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 4 2026
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A beloved carnival patriarch. Three feet of calm water. And an obituary that refuses to be written until Nora Tierney knows the truth.

When the Vásquez family carnival rolls into Wren Lake for the eleventh Memorial Day in a row, it brings the same lights, the same fried-dough smell off the harbor, and the same sugar-coated almonds old Domingo Vásquez has delivered to June Tierney on the festival's first evening every single year.

By Sunday morning, Domingo is dead - found face-down in eighteen inches of harbor water, an arm's length from the seawall.

The county calls it an accidental drowning. Nora Tierney, who writes the obituaries for the Wren Lake Weekly, calls it something that doesn't add up. She never met the man. But you can't write an honest account of a life you don't understand, and the more Nora learns about Domingo - warm to everyone, known in forty small towns, rooted in none of them - the more she realizes the obituary and the investigation have become the same work.

The trouble is that everyone loved Domingo. And someone in this quiet lake town needed him gone.

As Nora sits with the people who mourned him and the people who feared him, a picture forms in the gap between what they say and what they won't - and it points somewhere no one in Wren Lake wants to look.

Murder in Plain Print is the third book in the Last Word Mysteries cozy mystery series - a warm, small-town whodunit full of lake-town charm, a fair-play puzzle you can solve alongside Nora, and a community you'll want to move to. Perfect for readers of Louise Penny, Richard Osman, and anyone who believes the best mysteries are the ones hiding in plain sight.

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