It's been a stressful couple of months for bartender, Hope Foster, so her best friend Ruby treats her to an afternoon of holistic pampering with therapist Pandora Williams. But what should be a relaxing getaway turns into a murder scene when Hope and Ruby stumble across Pandora’s lifeless body in the kitchen next to a killer cocktail.
Hope is convinced that the police are barking up the wrong tree when it comes to suspects. But as she digs further into Pandora's past, it's seems she's opening the proverbial box. Twenty years ago, Pandora’s daughter, Jenna, disappeared one night after arranging to meet her fiancé, Tim, to break off their engagement. Pandora had always believed that Tim killed her daughter, although she’d never been able to prove it. Is Pandora’s murder connected with a decades-old family tragedy? Or has someone used the past as a convenient way to frame the fiancé? With the police wearing blinders, it’s up to Hope, Ruby, and ex-FBI agent Vernon to find out the truth...at any cost!
The new owner of The Smuggler's Tavern, Hope, is back in the thick of it again! The daughter and nephew of the late, previous, owner have given up the fight for the bar and her underwater archeologist boyfriend (Harvey) is back in the UK for a while, so Hope's good friend Ruby decides to treat Hope to a few hours of holistic TLC with the semi recluse Pandora. So far, so great ... only when Ruby and Hope arrive they witness the local pharmacist (Tim) running hell for leather out of Pandora's house, and when they get inside they discover her dead at the kitchen tables. Now the inept police chief has arrested Tim (who swears he is being framed) and he isn't looking into any other possibilities, so Hope, Ruby and their friend Vernon start snooping around. Well it gives Hope something to concentrate on other than the fact that Harvey has arrived back in town with his stunning ex girlfriend who obviously doesn't want to be an ex any longer!
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