Ground to a Halt (Jolie Gentil Cozy Mystery Series, #8)

In the eighth book of the Jolie Gentil series, she goes to buy a cup of coffee the morning after a storm knocks out power at her house in Ocean Alley. Instead of freshly brewed coffee, she finds Java Jolt unlocked and minus its owner. A bigger surprise is seeing proprietor Joe Regan a few minutes later, badly injured. A potential killer thinks Jolie has something Joe was hiding. The normal routine of appraising houses and volunteering at the Harvest for All food pantry is interrupted by an ...