Dread on Arrival

HEMLOCK FALLS IS ON THE MAP.
With quaint shops and a world-famous cooking school, it has become a destination for upscale tourists and shoppers. But death is an unwelcome attraction ...

THE HOST OF the television show Your Ancestor's Attic and the producer of its competition, Pawn-O-Rama, couldn't be more different. Ancestor's Edmund Tree is a mean-spirited, snobbish Brit, while Pawn's Belter Barcini is a T-shirted, armpit-scratching thug. Their already bitter rivalry heats up when they come to Hemlock Falls to have it out in a cooking contest in the elegant test kitchen of Bonne Goute Culinary Academy.

WHEN ONE OF the men keels over on camera -- the victim of fatally spiked punch -- all eyes turn to his television nemesis as the obvious culprit. But the list of suspects is long and includes some Hemlock Falls residents. Luckily, inn owners Sarah and Meg Quilliam are experts at appraising motives for murder...