Katherine Hamilton loses her job with a high end hotel and while she is contemplating her next career move she gets a request from her best friend from school to please come back to her home town in Maryland to help the town council figure out a big financial fiasco - the town is almost broke, people are moving away and those who have lived there all their lives want to do somerthing to bring in tourists to improve their business/economy. Odd request since she hadn't been back in years to come out of the blue but not having anything else to do she saw it as a sign and thought why not. The good news is she had enough money saved up she would be o.k. till she found her next job the bad news is she is spending a lot of time figuring out how to improve the town's situation, meeting and greeting with locals and trying to find something to capitalize on in a dead town with not even one viable tourisy attraction. And then there is her highschool nemesis who had made her life hell, humiliated her so bad that Katherine left town over it as soon as she could and married the man Katherine had been madly in love with. Then someone ends up dead and guess what? Katherine is the "new" person in town with questionable motive. Also Katherine is digging through everything in town trying to come up with info on any illustrious historical figure she might find a distant link to and somehow attach meaning and connection to a town headed for extinction. Amusing story. Seems Katherine wasn't the only person to hate the Queen of the Highschool click. Katherine is pushy and brash, sometimes funny, and she gets away with murder or does she? Good light read when you aren't up for something heavy or intense. It was o.k. A little fast and loose play with some facts about murder scenes and the fact that no one even considered checking to see if the body was actually dead or not. Also everyone in the story jumped to the conclusion that the person had been murdered not even entertaining the thought it could have been an accident. Those parts were kind of laughable, but overall it was an easy read and not the worst book I've ever read.
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