By Jean Erhardt
Meet Kim Claypoole, restaurateur, reluctant heroine and beginner sleuth with moxie galore. In Small city difficulty, the 1st in a chain from secret author Jean Erhardt, Claypoole's event starts off as she leaves her domestic within the Smoky Mountains to aid keep her mom Evelyn from bankruptcy. Claypoole leaves in her wake her Gatlinburg doublewide, her eating place, The Little Pigeon and her eating place accomplice and occasionally ally Mad Ted Weber in addition to a budding mystery love affair that is warmer than an Eskimo in July. Claypoole's savior complicated results in extra difficulty while she bumps into an past love in her place of birth who asks for her support clearing her hapless brother of homicide fees. In actual Claypoole model, she will get greater than she bargained for while she will get dragged right into a advanced quest to discover the genuine killer whole with topless tavern dancers, small city police officers, and a move of backwater characters. Can Claypoole clutter her means in the course of the murky depths of this extraordinary homicide secret sooner than it really is too past due? With biting humor and wit, Small city difficulty will go away you guessing what is round the subsequent nook within the quirky lifetime of Kim Claypoole.
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