Draw and Order

by Cheryl Hollon

Overview

Appalachian artist and local guide Miranda Trent opens a new murder investigation after her Paint & Shine tour group discovers the remains of a missing hiker along an ancient trail . . .
 
For her latest excursion, Miranda is thrilled to take a close-knit group of rock climbers, the Risky Business Adventurers, up the challenging Battleship Rock Trail to paint and sample moonshine. But the outing is cut short when they discover a skeleton near the trailhead. Even more startling, the bones belong to Howard Cable, Miranda’s cousin…and a former classmate of the Risky Business group.
 
The sheriff chalks it up to a hiking accident, but Miranda isn’t convinced that Howard, an experienced woodsman, died within sight of a well-marked trail. So, with the help of Ranger Austin Morgan, Miranda sets out on her own investigation and discovers that the Risky Business group is keeping plenty of secrets. But is one of them hiding the truth about Howard’s death?  

Praise for STILL KNIFE PAINTING:
 
“With its colorful characters, charming Southern setting, and well-plotted mystery, the Paint & Shine series is the perfect blend of all things cozy.”
—Ellery Adams, NYT and USA Today best-selling author

"Using a palette of clever plot twists and intriguing characters, Cheryl Hollon creates a richly drawn world that's both bucolic and dangerous in Still Knife Painting. Readers will take a shine to this addictive new series!"
—Agatha Award-winning author Ellen Byron

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496725271
Publisher:	Kensington
Publication date:	06/29/2021
Series:	A Paint & Shine Mystery , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	292,263
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Cheryl Hollon now writes full-time after she left an engineering career designing and building military flight simulators in amazing countries such as England, Wales, Australia, Singapore, Taiwan, and India. Fulfilling the dream of a lifetime, she combines her love of writing with a passion for oil painting and creating glass art. Cheryl and her husband live in downtown St. Petersburg, Florida. Visit her online at CherylHollon.com, on Facebook @CherylHollonWriter, on Instagram @CherylHollonAuthor, or on Twitter @CherylHollon.

Editorial Reviews

2021-04-14
Death disturbs the serene beauty of the Daniel Boone National Forest.

When Miranda Trent inherited her uncle’s farm in Kentucky, she gave up her career as an artist in New York and set out to establish a business that combined teaching art with hiking, preparing traditional, locally sourced food, and brewing moonshine. Armed with her uncle’s famous moonshine recipe, she’s working to build a still in her barn. Trouble arrives with the Risky Business Adventurers, a group of skilled hikers whom Miranda’s boyfriend, Ranger Austin Morgan, joins on an excursion to lecture on geology and local legends. It’s fortunate that he’s along on this difficult climb, for one of the hikers discovers human remains. Miranda has a bad feeling that the body could be that of her cousin Howard Cable, an experienced outdoorsman who disappeared without a trace five years ago. Howard was always searching for the lost silver mines legendary in the area. A forensic anthropologist confirms that the bones are those of a male with a broken leg and other damage. Certain the bones are her cousin’s, Miranda, who’s already solved one murder, promises her aunt that she’ll investigate and joins forces with Austin to do so. Miranda is surprised to learn that the members of Risky Business are all old friends of Howard's and that one of them had been about to become engaged to him, so she has plenty of suspects once the coroner determines that Howard was murdered. She knows she’s getting close when the killer sabotages her business, but she and Austin continue their hunt undeterred.

A solid mystery with the welcome addition of recipes for moonshine cocktails and down-home Southern dishes.

Kirkus Reviews