Wintergreen Mysteries: Book 4
Publication Date: February 15, 2024
A lover’s quarrel. An adopted dog. And a Murder at Dawn.
Retired detective Bill O’Shea’s summer is off to a great start. He’s made new friends, taken up the game of pickleball, and adopted a dog. But then a victim is found murdered, and the short-staffed police ask Bill to help out.
At the crime scene, Bill realizes that the murder weapon–a blue-handled knife–belongs to his good friend Kim–the local cafe manager. As the evidence mounts against Kim, Bill races to find other suspects. At the same time, he juggles multiple distractions: a perpetually hungry black bear, a mischievous Labrador retriever, and a missed vacation with his girlfriend.
Meanwhile, the commonwealth’s attorney aims to make a name for himself with a life sentence against Kim. Can Bill beat the odds and solve the case, or will he lose a good friend forever?
Murder at Dawn is the fourth book in the Wintergreen Mystery Series and is perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and Louise Penny.
A morning breakup. A dead girlfriend. It doesn’t take much to look at the scorned partner as the culprit, especially with a connection to the murder weapon.
However, Bill O’Shea isn’t convinced. The retired homicide detective gets pulled into the investigation since it is in his stomping grounds, but that means he also knows the accused.
Author Patrick Kelly pens the fourth installment of the Wintergreen Mystery series with Murder at Dawn. Set in the picturesque mountain community, this cozy mystery can easily be read out of sequence.
Featuring multiple perspectives from the diverse characters, the focus is on who killed Lily. As the evidence mounts against Kim, Bill digs deeper and finds some surprising details to blow the case open.
Murder at Dawn offers a crisp mystery with relatable characters with interesting stories of their own.
Pat Kelly was raised in the idyllic suburb of Yorktown, Virginia, where children ran barefoot through the grass in summer and fished in the waters of the York River. He graduated from UVA and left the state to pursue a corporate career. After settling in Texas, Pat married a wonderful woman, and together they raised two daughters in the awesome city of Austin. With the girls now grown and gone, Pat has pursued a lifelong love of writing stories. After penning the Joe Robbins Thriller Series and the heartwarming family saga The Sheila Stories, Patrick Kelly has now written a clean mystery set in the beautiful mountain resort community of Wintergreen, Virginia. Patrick is winner of the Beverly Hills Book Award for best thriller (A Siren’s Love) and a finalist for the Wishing Shelf Book Awards for adult fiction.
