Crafts and Life

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.

Another fantastic episode in the life of Julia Snowden and Busman's Harbour, Barbara Ross has a talent for making fictional people seem very real.  This book opens with a fairly sombre boat trip, one of Busman's Harbour's residents died a few weeks back and this trip is to honour her final wishes to scatter her ashes in the water, with the Snowden's boat being the only one large enough to take everyone they are doing the honours, but it starts badly when the heir to the Herrickson House turns up late, parks illegally and doesn't seem bothered about anything at all.  It gets worse the next day though when he has a fence and gate put up to stop people getting down to the beach! This means the clammers cannot get any clams (which can impact on the Snowden Clambake!), so Julia tries to talk to him to change his mind.  Unfortunately she doesn't succeed but someone is even unhappier as half an hour after she left the house he is found dead!

Now with the livelihood of various people hanging in the balance, Julia's boyfriend Chris finally opening up and skeletons coming out of closets, Julia has more than Clam Chowder on her mind!

An Interview With A Character

What is your full name?

Julia Morrow Snowden

What is your Profession?

In the summer I run the Snowden Family Clambake business. Twice a day, for lunch and dinner, we take 200 guests on our tour boat out to our private island for an authentic Maine clambake. In the winter I run a dinner restaurant with my boyfriend, Chris Durand.

What is your current favourite book or movie?

My favorite book is Emma, by Jane Austen.

What is your go to comfort book or movie?

My comfort movie is Love Actually, which my mom, sister and I have watched together every holiday season for years, even during the time I was away at school or working in New York City, even when my father was dying of cancer. It’s our tradition and it comforts me greatly.

If someone was to play you in a movie who would it be? OR what would be the character you would want to be in a book?

I always answer Anna Kendrick to the question of who should play me in a movie, because she is from Maine, is small like me, and we are around the same age. Plus I really like her acting. She has dark hair and I am blond, but that doesn’t matter, does it?

What is your ideal evening?

There’s a magic time of night at the clambake when the meal is finished and the guests are full and happy. The sun goes down over a point on the western end of our island and many of the guests walk out to watch it. I love to watch the families, the kids on their parents’ shoulders, the multiple generations, the old friends. For my parents, the clambake was always about sharing our traditions and our beautiful island with others. On days like that, when everything goes right, I am my happiest.

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