The Barnes & Noble Review
A cozy setting, a cunning plot, a charmingly eccentric cast of characters, and some helpful hints about candlemaking and cooking combine beautifully in the debut of this captivating series by Tim Myers, author of the Edgar Award–nominated Lighthouse Inn mysteries. Candle shop owner Belle Black had brightened the lives of everyone around her, and she'd been a really wonderful great-aunt to Harrison Black. When Belle dies suddenly, she leaves everything to Harrison. That legacy includes the converted factory and warehouse of River's Edge, where Belle lived and worked -- it's now a complex of shops, offices, and more. To the nearly broke and increasingly disillusioned computer salesman Harrison, stepping into Belle's life seems like the fresh start he's been looking for. Belle didn't believe in funerals or fancy headstones, so Harrison sees living up to the trust she placed in him -- caring for Belle's tenants and friends, and tackling the creative and practical challenges of running her candle shop, At Wick's End -- as the perfect living memorial to Belle's life. A series of break-ins, vandalism, and worse soon add fuel to Harrison's suspicion that Belle's death was no accident...and that there's something her killer still wants at River's Edge. Now it's up to Harrison to burn the candle of his life at both ends until he can illuminate the truth, and deliver justice. Sue Stone