The Bonaparte House is closed for the season, and Georgie Nikolopatos looks forward to fixing up the Greek restaurant and historic landmark—until her renovation plans hit a fatal snag.
With her divorce underway, her mother-in-law returning to Greece, and the tourists gone, Georgie finally has life under control—and the Bonaparte House to herself. She quickly hires a contractor for some much-needed renovations to reopen in time for a special Greek-style Thanksgiving meal. Georgie is suspicious though when former dishwasher Russ Riley arrives with the construction crew. He still has an axe to grind with the Nikolopatos family—but is it sharp enough to kill?
When Georgie finds the body of her divorce lawyer amid the construction debris and Russ is quickly arrested for murder, something about the case doesn’t add up. While Georgie is no fan of Russ, even a bad egg deserves a crack at justice.
Another excellent outing the with characters created by Susannah Hardy, I really like the fact that she has modern family ideas (soon to be ex husband who came out as gay, but both he and his new partner are still great friends with Georgie, oh and an estranged parent who Georgie is just getting to know again).
In this latest offering the restaurant is shut, and whilst normally this would be the cue for Georgie to hibernate with hot drinks, wine, chocolate and play catch up on her reading and DVD watching this year her Mother in Law has agreed to loosen the purse strings so that the very outdated Ladies and Gents bathrooms can be gutted and re-done. Georgie was expecting a fair amount of mess and noise, what she wasn't expecting was the body of her divorce lawyer well and truly dead in the renovations!
With her mother (and her mother's assistant) ill on one of the islands, the restaurant's cook Dolly also not well, the renovations unable to continue (especially as one of the workers has been arrested for the murder!) and an attack on another restaurant owner, Georgie needs to sort a lot out if family and friends are going to see Thanksgiving at the Bonaparte House Restaurant.
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