Tradition of Deceit (A Chloe Ellefson Mystery)

the long version

Book 5 in the award-winning historical Chloe Ellefson Mystery series Curator and occasional sleuth Chloe Ellefson is off to Minneapolis to help her friend Ariel with a monumental task. Ariel must write a proposal for a controversial and expensive restoration project: convert an abandoned flour mill, currently used as shelter by homeless people, into a museum. When a dead body is found stuffed into a grain chute, Chloe's attention turns from milling to murder. Back in Milwaukee, Chloe's love interest Roelke has been slammed with the news that a fellow officer was shot and killed while on duty. Sifting through clues from both past and present, Chloe and Roelke discover dangerous secrets that put their lives - and their trust in each other - at risk. Praise: "A page-turner with a clever surprise ending." - G.M. MALLIET, AGATHA AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE ST. JUST AND MAX TUDOR MYSTERY SERIES "A haunting tale of two murders.... This is more than a mystery. It is a plush journey into cultural time and place." - JILL FLORENCE LACKEY, PhD, AUTHOR OF MILWAUKEE'S OLD SOUTH SIDE AND AMERICAN ETHNIC PRACTICES IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY