Caught in the Snare: A Chautauqua Murder Mystery

Caught in the Snare is the eleventh book in Deb Pines' traditional whodunit Chautauqua Mysteries featuring the wise and witty reporter sleuth of a certain age Mimi Goldman.
"An Agatha Christie for the text-message age," IndieReader calls the series.
When Velma White, a tyrannical landlady, now 74 and shaky on her feet, is found dead at the bottom of the steep, slippery stairs of her Chautauqua home, it looks like an accident.

But was it?

Velma lived in a "house of vipers," says her best friend....