title: Widow's Weeds: Lessons Learned From The Death Of A Partner
author:  Lisa Courtney 
description: Lisa Courtney is a novelist whose unwitting foray into nonfiction with "Widow's Weeds: Lessons Learned from the Death of a Partner" has not, as she may have feared, pulled her too far away from her somewhat neurotic literary roots in fantasy and fiction. She is generally perceived to be a nice woman (with only infrequent lapses), despite what could easily be considered a decidedly wicked sense of humor. Widowed in 2001 (and still a little miffed about that), she shares her home in the Pacific Northwest with a nearly-manageable number of cats, a thoroughly unmanageable number of books, and a good man. She has written an enchanting series called "A Year and a Day Trilogy" (made up of three novels: "The Court Singer", "Mischief and Menace", and "Done is Done"), which is slowly but definitely attracting attention. Lisa is currently working on a new series of novels that will release in late 2016.
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  Tori Cannon and her grandfather, Herb, return from her grandmother’s funeral,
  and it’s with sadness that she learns the bait shop and small motel they ran
  has fallen on hard times. Jammed into one of the motel’s units is the body of
  one of Herb’s customers, his mouth filled with spikes. The victim had no
  enemies, except for maybe the rich woman who wanted to level his eyesore of a
  home. But he also had a daughter who’s resentful her father wasn’t a major
  force in her life, and some friends who were anything but friends.
  
  
  
  
  
  Tori’s friend, Kathy, arrives to help spruce up the property, and the two of
  them find themselves mixed up in the petty jealousies and deadly consequences
  that murder entails. Can they save the bait shop and find a murderer or will
  they, too, sleep with the fishes?
  