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Booked for Murder (Lighthouse Inn Mysteries, No. 5)

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Elise Danton and her employer, Alex Winston, did all the work at Hatteras West, an inn in the Blue Ridge Mountains having a replica of the lighthouse at Cape Hatteras. The inn consisted of two buildings, but they were not at full occupancy. A guard employed to watch over an exhibit of an emerald is found killed by a lighthouse letter opener. It is also discovered that the real emerald had been replaced by a fake.

Alex and Elise and another couple go out to eat at a new restaurant in town, Monet's Garden. The prices are high and there is a ruckus going on in the kitchen. The meals are dreadful. The chef has quit. The owner tears up the bill and gives the foursome a voucher for four free meals at a future date. Elise is, apparently, beautiful. She call her beauty a genetic wind-fall. She is embarassed to admit she once entered a beauty contest in order to obtain funds to continue in school.

An ex-cop, now a security man, believes that when one of Alex's guests is shot while jogging the assault is intentional. Alex decides to conduct an informal investigation, too. Alex Winston is a pleasant main character. He seems like the sort of person one would like to know. When Alex learns from a surveyor that the lighthouse may not be on his property he is made anxious. The mystery is wrapped up when the true identities of the surveyor and a muffin lady are discerned.

5th in Myers' first series featuring Alex Winston and his lighthouse inn in the Blue Ridge Mountains, this mystery focuses on the huge emerald that Alex has agreed to host a display of in one of his rooms. When the guard is murdered and the emerald is switched with a fake in the last hour of the display, Alex and his manager, Elise, look high and low to find clues as to who committed this heinous act in their beloved inn. In the midst of the murder, there is a local muffin war going on between a new baker in town and the local diner, who has provided the inn with their breakfasts since the inn began serving them. On top of that, there is a new fancy restaurant in town, and Alex has become embroiled in helping the new owner survive in the small town. Following Alex and Elise in their adventures is a pleasant pastime, but not an overwhelmingly involved one.

very good mystery. I like mysteries and I don't like the use off all the foul words so popular in books today. This book was a pleasant surprise. Good plot minimum of swear words and kept me expecting more.