Come join the Connie Morella Mystery book club! We will be reading mysteries\, \;thrillers \;and whodunits t ogether \;on the last Tuesday of \;every month. This December\, we will be discussing Pomona Afton Can So Solve a Murder by Bellamy Rose. \;
\nWhen Pomona Afton\, Upper East Side hotel heiress\, stumbles out of a gala and upon the scene of her grandmother's murder\, he r first thought is that the society queen won't be missed for her kind\, c ookie-baking ways. In fact\, she was mean\, greedy\, and paranoid--so para noid that she secretly slipped a clause into her will mandating that\, sho uld she die an unnatural death\, all the family assets get frozen. And if the "unnatural death" isn't explained? Those accounts stay frozen. Practic ally overnight\, Pomona is locked out of her penthouse with no other optio n than to move in with a roommate: Gabe\, the irritable (yet handsome) son of her former nanny. Not only is his apartment cramped\, but it doesn't e ven have a doorman. Or a chef! Pom needs someone to solve this murder\, li ke\, yesterday\, so she can get her trust fund back. And Gabe? He needs th is murder solved because that's the only way his mother\, who toiled for t he Afton family for years\, will ever get the retirement money she deserve s. As Pom's family clams up\, blocking the police at every turn\, Pom quic kly realizes that if she wants her glamorous life back\, she's going to ha ve to put on her big-girl Manolos and do it herself . . . with the help of Gabe\, who she's falling for more and more by the day. Can Pomona Afton ( who previously couldn't solve a crossword in the bath on a hungover Sunday ) actually solve this murder? And if she does return to her former life of luxury\, will it be worth the possibility of losing Gabe?
\nCopies of the book can be picked up at the front desk at the Connie Morella Libra ry\, or you can borrow a digital copy from our online collection here. \;
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