Tranquility has been famous for a long time. Here and there, forsythia unfurled in insistent bursts of golden glory. It was an April afternoon the colors on the trees and bushes were still painting from the watery palate of spring. Sometimes in life you think it’s about where you’re going, but it turns out to be about where you change trains. The train heading south for New York City, however, would not be along until 4 p.m. Once detrained, the posted schedule had informed me should I decide to bolt and head north for Montreal, I could leave within the hour. Travelling from Los Angeles to New York City by rail, I had taken the northern route, which required me to change trains in the storied village of Tranquility, New York. I could do Marta a solid by finding the bartender and telling him drink orders were stacking up. A glance at my watch told me over half an hour remained until my connecting train chugged in across the street. Instead I nodded, grateful for a reason to stand up. I should have put down forty bucks to cover my drink and my meal and left that magical, moody, dark-wood paneled Scottish bar and sauntered back across the street to the train station to continue on my way. Joseph would never just go off without telling me.” “Everyone wants another drink,” she said, “but Joseph’s missing. “Whenever you see the bartender, I’d like another drink,” I said, lifting my empty martini glass and tipping it to Marta, the waitress with teal hair. Series: Bartender’s Guide to Murder, 1 To buy the book and follow on Goodreads, click the following links: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | The Bookstore Plus | GoodreadsĮxcerpt of Death in Tranquility Chapter 1 Death in the Afternoon The first book in the Bartender’s Guide to Murder series offers chills, laughs, and 30 of the best drink recipes ever imbibed. A bartender herself, she’s offered the position with the warning he wasn’t the first MacTavish’s bartender to meet a violent end.Īvalon’s superpower is collecting people’s stories, and she’s soon embroiled in the lives of artists, politicians, ghost hunters and descendants of Old Hollywood.Ĭan Avalon outrun the ghosts of her past, catch the ghosts of Tranquility’s past and outsmart a murderer? Having a drink while waiting to change trains in the former Olympic town of Tranquility, New York, she discovers the freshly murdered bartender at MacTavish’s. And Avalon Nash is one hell of a bartender.Īvalon is on the run from her life in Los Angeles.
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