Gone With the Woodwinds

January 1921 brings two arrivals to Timber Coulee, Idaho: the Idaho All-State Music Competition, and a killer.

Amanda Parrish, proprietress of Mountain Melodies Music Shop and newly engaged to Sheriff James Holcomb, has pulled off a small coup for the local planning committee-convincing her old conservatory friend to come up from the University of Idaho to judge the woodwinds competition. He is dead before the week is out.

Suspicion settles immediately on Amanda's co-manager, Callan MacTavish-a Scottish WWI veteran whose midnight walks and troubled silences make him an easy target. Amanda knows better. The clock is ticking on finding the real killer before they vanish forever...or strike again.

Between managing the competition, fending off the pointed observations of her future mother-in-law (a woman for whom the phrase glacially polite seems to have been coined), and coaxing testimony from the town's reclusive Norwegian hermit, Amanda must untangle a legal dispute that stretches back years-and make sense of obscure clues before the killer disappears into the winter dark.

This fourth book in the beloved Music Shop Mysteries series of historical cozy mysteries will appeal to fans of Rhys Bowen, Kate Khavari, and Sara Rosett.