Linda Crowder Libri

Caribou King is accustomed to losing boyfriends to her best friend, Taylor Snow, but she isn't accustomed to having them turn up dead. When a second man dies after falling for Taylor, Cara is the only person in the tiny town of Coho Bay, Alaska who believes in her innocence. When she sets out to prove it, she uncovers lie after lie -- and not just coming from Taylor. Cara had better figure things out quickly or the next body fished out of the bay could be hers.Cara is a 26 year-old native of Coho Bay, Alaska, a tiny town whose claim to fame is as a stop on the lucrative cruise ship line. Cara owns The Broken Antler Gallery, specializing in one of a kind works of art crafted by artists across south eastern Alaska. "The Deadly Art of Deception" is the first in a series that is part cozy mystery, part chick-lit. There is a good mixture of humor and suspense with just a touch of romance.

Alaskan fine arts dealer, Caribou King, has closed up shop for the season and is looking forward to a peaceful winter, capped off by the birth of her sister's first child. When she discovers the body of Angela Nash, an elderly woman, in the old Tilamu house, Cara can't help poking her nose into the investigation. Doc Tilamu served the people of Coho Bay all his life, building the house for his bride and their three children, but as soon as they became adults, each one of them left town and never looked back. When Alex Tilamu shows up at Mrs. Nash's funeral, drunk and ranting about murder, Cara is convinced there is more at stake than a dilapidated house on the edge of the bay. Unraveling the mystery of the old woman's death takes Cara and the town's one-man police force, Dan Simmons, on a perilous journey through decades-old hatreds, bitterness and greed. With the Alaskan winter closing in, Cara finds herself caught between two men who say they love her and one who wants her dead. This is the second book in the Caribou King Mystery series, combining murder, light suspense, comedy and romance.