Board to death: a board game shop mystery

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Connor, C. J.

Connor, C. J.

Duraleigh Road Community
Fuquay-Varina Community
Leesville Community
Northeast Regional
Oberlin Regional
Wake Forest Community

Mystery

Cary Regional - Mystery
Duraleigh Road - Mystery
Fuquay-Varina Community - Mystery
Leesville Community - Mystery
Northeast Regional - Mystery
Oberlin Regional - Mystery
Wake Forest Community - Mystery

"Back in his hometown of Sugar House running his familys board game shop and caf,̌ Ben Rosencrantz just cant seem to get his life to pass go, much less collect $200. Once he was a happily married English professor in Seattle. Now hes a divorced caregiver, looking after his ill father and a Chihuahua named Beans while still figuring out the rules of retail management st the town has become more LGBTQ+ friendly than when Ben was a teenagerand that flower shop owner, Ezra McCaslin, enjoys flirting with him. But despite his usual clientele of gamers, Ben is barely earning enough to keep the store running and stay on top of his fathers medical bills. Then a local toy and game collector named Clive offers him a winning strategyto purchase a turn-of-the-twentieth-century edition of The Landlords Game, the realty and taxation game that inspired Monopoly, at a tenth of the rare editions true value. Suspicious of Clives shady, low-priced deal, Ben turns the offer down. Then Clive turns up dead at the front door of Ben s and a backpack full of $100 bills appears on his doorstep. Now Ben is the #1 suspect in Clives death, and unless he and Ezra can prove his innocence and find the real killer, hell go to jail for murderand no amount of double dice rolls will set him free..."--Provided by publisher. "Back in his hometown of Sugar House running his familys board game shop and caf, Ben Rosencrantz just cant seem to get his life to pass go, much less collect $200. Once he was a happily married English professor in Seattle. Now hes a divorced caregiver, looking after his ill father and a Chihuahua named Beans while still figuring out the rules of retail management st the town has become more LGBTQ+ friendly than when Ben was a teenagerand that flower shop owner, Ezra McCaslin, enjoys flirting with him. But despite his usual clientele of gamers, Ben is barely earning enough to keep the store running and stay on top of his fathers medical bills. Then a local toy and game collector named Clive offers him a winning strategyto purchase a turn-of-the-twentieth-century edition of The Landlords Game, the realty and taxation game that inspired Monopoly, at a tenth of the rare editions true value. Suspicious of Clives shady, low-priced deal, Ben turns the offer down. Then Clive turns up dead at the front door of Ben s and a backpack full of $100 bills appears on his doorstep. Now Ben is the #1 suspect in Clives death, and unless he and Ezra can prove his innocence and find the real killer, hell go to jail for murderand no amount of double dice rolls will set him free..."--Provided by publisher.

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CONNOR

Wake County Public Libraries

Cary Regional
Duraleigh Road Community
Fuquay-Varina Community
Leesville Community
Northeast Regional
Oberlin Regional
Wake Forest Community

9781496742223

2023

Kensington Cozies

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Board game shop mysteries

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College teachers -- Fiction
Detective and mystery fiction
Salt Lake City (Utah) -- Fiction
Sexual minorities -- Fiction
Toy stores -- Fiction

Board to death : a board game shop mystery

Board to death : a board game shop mystery / CJ Connor

Board to death

a board game shop mystery

College teachers
Sexual minorities
Toy stores