Steamed Open

Name: Steamed Open
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Barbara Ross
ISBN: 9781977345790

Author: Barbara Ross

Series: Maine Clambake Mystery #7

Narrator: Dara Rosenberg

Unabridged: 6 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/16/2019

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Amateur Sleuth, Women Sleuths

Synopsis

It's summertime in Busman's Harbor, Maine, and the clamming is easy—or it was until a mysterious new neighbor blocks access to the beach, cutting off the Snowden Family Clambake's supply. Julia Snowden is just one of many townspeople angered by Bartholomew Frick's decision. But which one of them was angry enough to kill?

Beachcombers, lighthouse buffs, and clammers are outraged after Frick puts up a gate in front of his newly inherited mansion. When Julia urges him to reconsider, she's the last to see him alive—except the person who stabs him in the neck with a clam rake. As she pores through a long list of suspects, Julia meets disgruntled employees, rival heirs, and a pair of tourists determined to visit every lighthouse in America. They all have secrets, and Julia will have to work fast to expose the guilty party—or see this season's clam harvest dry up for good.

About Barbara Ross

Barbara Ross is the author of the Maine Clambake Mysteries and the Jane Darrowfield Mysteries. Her books have been nominated for multiple Agatha Awards for Best Contemporary Novel and have won the Maine Literary Award for Crime Fiction. Barbara's Maine Clambake novellas are included along with stories by Leslie Meier and Lee Hollis in holiday anthologies from Kensington Publishing. Barbara and her husband live in Portland, Maine.

Reviews

Goodreads review by James on September 28, 2021

Steamed Open is the 7th book in the Maine Clambake Mysteries written by Barbara Ross. The series takes place on the coast of Maine in current times, and the protagonist is Julia Snowdown, a ~30ish young woman who spent time in NYC before returning home to help her mother and sister run the family bu......more

Goodreads review by Mark on December 20, 2018

Lou Herrickson, a beloved member of the Busman's Harbor community, has recently died. Lou has left everything to her late husband's grandnephew, Bart Frick. That includes the mansion where she lived and the lighthouse and beach connected to it. Lou had always left the beach open to the public, but t......more

Goodreads review by Paula on March 23, 2023

Another great mystery at Busman's Harbor, ME and the Clambake crew. It starts with a funeral at sea of a woman that everyone loved but her heir was not likeable at all and puts a gate up to the beach access which has angered a lot of people especially clammers that depend on the area to make their l......more

Goodreads review by Lisa Ks Book Reviews on December 31, 2018

Everyone knows when I get a cozy mystery in my hands, leave me alone until I come up for air. The day I read STEAMED OPEN, the book didn’t leave my hands. It went everywhere in the house with me (Yes. Everywhere. TMI I know). Seriously, I couldn’t stop reading until I had finished. I wouldn’t say boo......more