Murder has hardware store owner Dawna Carpenter all shook up.Pine Bluff, Oregon's annual Winter Carnival is the perfect remedy for the cabin fever that has hit the town hard. Dawna pulls on her bobby socks for this year's 50s-themed event, ready to relax and mingle after a long winter.But with the angry high school French teacher spitting nails at half the town, the social event of the winter is anything but relaxing. What should have been a fun evening ends in disaster when Dawna's daughter, April, finds the teacher sitting behind his desk, dead as a doornail. To make matters worse, his ghost is still in the classroom, unaware he's just been murdered. With an ice storm in the forecast, Dawna must chisel out the clues to find the killer before there's another nail in a coffin. When Paula Charles isn't writing, you can find her reading and contemplating murder under the towering trees of the Pacific Northwest. She is the author of the Hometown Hardware Mystery series, as well as the Zen Goat Mysteries written as Janna Rollins, both cozy mysteries.Paula is a member of Sisters in Crime, the national chapter, the Guppies, and the Columbia River chapter. She lives in Washington state with her extremely patient husband and a gaggle of furry and feathered creatures.
