A Most Unwelcome Death

In Whistle Creek, secrets have a way of refusing to stay buried. Especially when the dead won't stop talking.

Molly O'Shea Danner has enough on her plate running the family emporium, tending her farm, and keeping Jasper—the resident ghost no one else can see—out of trouble. The last thing she needs is a murder to solve.

But when her friend Tara Beth Wilson is found dead at Belle Briar, everyone assumes her failing heart finally gave out.

Until the sheriff discovers she was poisoned.

Suddenly, the grand old estate is at the center of a murder investigation, and there's no shortage of people who wanted something from Tara Beth. An unexpected heir. A fortune hanging in the balance. A family determined to get its hands on Belle Briar. And enough small-town gossip to keep Whistle Creek talking until Christmas.

Molly isn't a detective. She knows that. Unfortunately, she also knows Tara Beth—and something about her friend's death doesn't add up.

With Jasper offering more opinions than help, a Chicago detective-turned-small-town deputy watching her far too closely, and a killer who would very much prefer she stop asking questions, Molly begins pulling at the loose threads Tara Beth left behind.

But in Whistle Creek, one loose thread can unravel an awful lot of secrets. And some of them are worth killing to keep.