Thanksgiving and Theft
(2021)(A book in the Century Cottage Cozy Mystery series)
A Story by Dianne Ascroft
Thanksgiving and Theft is a novella in the Century Cottage Cozy Mysteries series. Set a week or so before The Heritage Heist begins, find out what happens when Lois returns to Toronto for a weekend visit with friends.
A reunion weekend, a crime repeated, a fresh outcome. When Lois Stone visits her old neighbourhood, she doesn’t expect to witness a replay of a past crime, but she does intend to see justice done this time.
Middle-aged widow Lois Stone returns to Toronto for a Thanksgiving weekend visit. She loves Fenwater, the small town where she now lives, but it’s good to see her old friends and neighbourhood. While strolling through the local park, she interrupts a vicious mugging in the same spot where her husband was attacked and died three years ago, but she can’t prevent the assailant fleeing with the elderly victim’s purse. Despite the painful memories the crime evokes, Lois is determined to track down the assailant and turn him over to the police, and recover a treasured keepsake for the victim.
And so begins a weekend of enduring friendships, tiramisu and apple pie, glittering gifts, stealthy shopping, a sauce-stained constable and the elusiveness of a familiar face set against the backdrop of autumn splendour in a riverside park, scurrying squirrels with bulging cheeks, the roar of rushing waterfalls and an Italian-Canadian Thanksgiving feast.
The Century Cottage Cozy Mysteries series is mainly set in rural Ontario, Canada during the early 1980s.
A tale for fans of Cindy Bell, Leighann Dobbs, Dianne Harman and Kathi Daley.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
A reunion weekend, a crime repeated, a fresh outcome. When Lois Stone visits her old neighbourhood, she doesn’t expect to witness a replay of a past crime, but she does intend to see justice done this time.
Middle-aged widow Lois Stone returns to Toronto for a Thanksgiving weekend visit. She loves Fenwater, the small town where she now lives, but it’s good to see her old friends and neighbourhood. While strolling through the local park, she interrupts a vicious mugging in the same spot where her husband was attacked and died three years ago, but she can’t prevent the assailant fleeing with the elderly victim’s purse. Despite the painful memories the crime evokes, Lois is determined to track down the assailant and turn him over to the police, and recover a treasured keepsake for the victim.
And so begins a weekend of enduring friendships, tiramisu and apple pie, glittering gifts, stealthy shopping, a sauce-stained constable and the elusiveness of a familiar face set against the backdrop of autumn splendour in a riverside park, scurrying squirrels with bulging cheeks, the roar of rushing waterfalls and an Italian-Canadian Thanksgiving feast.
The Century Cottage Cozy Mysteries series is mainly set in rural Ontario, Canada during the early 1980s.
A tale for fans of Cindy Bell, Leighann Dobbs, Dianne Harman and Kathi Daley.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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