I am excited to share with you the cover for the next book in the “Berkshire Hilltown” mystery series from Encircle Publications, coming May 2020.

Book Synopsis
It’s June in the Berkshires, a beautiful time when everything is lush and green. Boston library curator Kathryn Stinson returns there, hoping to rebuild her romance with New Nottingham local, Earl Barker, but ends up battling a New York developer, determined to turn the property she’s been renting into an upscale development. The fight pits her against Earl, offered the job of clearing the land. When a fire breaks out in the woods, the burned body of another opponent is discovered. Did he die trying to escape a fire he set, or did someone else start the fire to cover up his murder? Kathryn’s search for answers leads her to other questions about the developer’s connection to a friend of hers who fled New York years ago for mysterious reasons. The information she uncovers puts her in grave danger.

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Publication Date: May 1, 2020
Name of Series: Berkshire Hilltown
Number in Series: #2
Genre: Mystery/Suspense
Author Website: lesliewheeler.com

About the author
An award-winning author of books about American history and biographies, Leslie launched her Berkshire Hilltown Mysteries with Rattlesnake Hill. She has also written three Living History Mystery series: Murder at Plimoth Plantation, Murder at Gettysburg and Murder at Spouters Point. Her mystery short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies including Mystery Most Geographical; Noir at the Salad Bar, Culinary Tales with a Bite; Day of the Dark, Stories of Eclipse; and the Best New England Crime Stories anthologies, published by Level Best Books, where she was a co-editor for six years. Leslie is a member of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime, and a founding member of the New England Crime Bake Committee. She divides her time between Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Berkshires, where she writes in a house overlooking a pond.

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