Book description
Sane people are boring, Sabrina Dunsweeney tells her friends when they
try to convince her that she is crazy to travel to tiny, isolated Comico
Island to recover from a cancer scare and the sudden loss of her mother.
Sabrina, who has a tendency toward hypochondria and very bad cooking,
soon meets Lima Lowry, the tallest tale-teller on the island. He tells
her all about the pirate Walk-the-Plank Wrightly, who died two hundred
years ago and who has recently made a cameo reappearance in Sabrina's
rose garden. Lima invites her to a campaign fund-raising tea party at
the prestigious Tittletott House, where Sabrina is surprised to find the
stoic islanders clutching monstrous neon teapots as they begin a mass
stampede toward the lone bathroom, spurred on by an unexpected
ingredient in the chocolate scones. It seems someone is determined to
ruin Brad Tittletott's campaign for the most coveted title on the
island: president of the sanitary commission. Everyone is sure it's the
crazy Wrightlys, who have hated the Tittletotts for centuries, but could
it be a member of Brad's own family? Then Sabrina finds the ghost now
truly dead in her rose garden and is soon drawn into a maze of deadly
island intrigue! Island Intrigue starts a fascinating new series. Ohio
teacher Sabrina Dunsweeney was expecting a month of rest and relaxation
on Comico Island in this entertaining first of a new series from Mills
(Death of a Mermaid), but instead finds herself caught between two
feuding families, the Tittletots, who own most of the isolated, vaguely
Southern island, and the Wrightlys. Years earlier, Rolo Wrightly was
accused of stealing a neighbor's silver and then setting her house
afire. Rolo disappeared in the middle of the night and, with the
exception of occasional letters to his mother, was never heard from
again. Now, Rolo reappears on the island-and shortly after striking up
an acquaintance with Sabrina, he's murdered. Unimpressed by the island's
police force, Sabrina elects to do a little sleuthing herself. After
unmasking the killer (quite literally on Halloween), Sabrina decides to
stay on at Comico, a choice that, while unsurprising, will leave readers
eagerly anticipating another Comico adventure. Critically-acclaimed
author Wendy Howell Mills enjoys writing humorous mysteries set in an
eclectic, island locale. She lives on a tropical island off the
southwest coast of Florida with her husband and two young sons, where
she spends her time writing and dodging hurricanes. Island Blues is the
second book in this Island-Style Mystery Series.
