The Phantom Takes a Bride

Nate and Star return in the third book in the Phantom murder whodunit series. The small town of Mukwonago, site of two chilling murder sprees in recent months, celebrates a new year, hoping the horror is over. But less than two months in, another murder sends local police scrambling. Ninety-two-year-old Marge Stickney announces she has found a letter indicating the location of a million-dollar fortune in gold and silver coins, hidden for more than a century and a half. Thirteen minutes later, she is murdered in her kitchen, the letter--gone. As Officer Nate Janowsky and newspaper editor Star Calloway team up to try and unmask the killer, they discover the letter contains secrets of its own, and the killer is no closer to the location of the fortune than are the police. But the killings aren't done, and uncovering the truth is complicated by Star's mentorship of a naive, young reporter, a missing island, an ominous dream, the death of a close friend, and a murder that could not possibly have been committed in thirteen minutes--but was. Once again, the keys to Nate's and Star's success lie in the village's distant past. And the keys to their survival lie with each other.