No worries: Dan takes a shine to Emily and promises to share bookshop responsibilities with her, though he soon gets wrapped up in a local case of his own. Emily, who hasn’t seen her uncle Alfred for seven years, certainly hasn’t anticipated an ouster from her place as owner-in-absentia. The bookstore is staffed by Hill's niece, Emily Lovecraft, whose other ancestors include the master of supernatural horror. Carter finds this strange, since he's never heard of Alfred Hill. His eminently predictable caseload is dominated by assignments to follow cheating husbands-until a lawyer turns up and tells Carter that someone named Alfred Hill has left him a bequest that turns out to be a bookstore in Providence. Unnerved, Dan leaves the force and turns private eye. Lovecraft’s descendants to solve a crime.ĭetective Dan Carter’s biggest case is his last: his partner blows his own brains out after they’ve apprehended a serial killer. A former cop delves into the supernatural when he’s teamed with one of H.P.
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