ASIN: B01N3KIINE
Publisher: Laurel Heidtman
Pages: 314
2016 WISHING SHELF INDEPENDENT BOOK AWARDS BRONZE WINNER!New Yorker Erica "Ricki" Fontaine's n'er-do-well uncle has dropped dead and left her a dive bar in a small Ohio River town. With a lousy apartment, less-than-promising job prospects, and even worse romantic ones, the inheritance comes at just the right time. Ricki packs up her cat and heads for the Buckeye State.Now she's trying to change the Top Shelf from a bar known for its Friday night fights into the kind of drinking establishment where you can bring your granny. Finding her ex-husband dead on a barstool at opening time one morning just might put a kink in those plans.Lolli Powell fuses the best elements of the mid-80s sitcom Cheers and Agatha Christie mysteries in THE BODY ON THE BARSTOOL. The first entry in the Top Shelf Mystery series, the book wastes no time establishing Ricki as a fun narrator in an engaging book that is ...
