{"product_id":"2940169715743","title":"Dodging and Burning: A Mystery","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a small Virginia town still reeling from World War II, a photograph of a beautiful murdered woman propels three young people into the middle of a far-reaching mystery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA lurid crime scene photo of a beautiful woman arrives on mystery writer Bunny Prescott's doorstep with no return addressamp;mdash;and it's not the first time she's seen it. The reemergence of the photo, taken fifty-five years earlier, sets her on a journey to reconstruct the vicious summer that changed her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the summer of 1945, Ceola Bliss is a lonely twelve-year-old tomboy, mourning the loss of her brother, Robbie, who was declared missing in the Pacific. She tries to piece together his life by rereading his favorite pulp detective story A Date with Death and spending time with his best friend, Jay Greenwood, in Royal Oak, VA. One unforgettable August day, Jay leads Ceola and Bunny to a stretch of woods where he found a dead woman, but when they arrive, the body is gone. They soon discover a local woman named Lily Vellum is missing and begin to piece together the threads of her murder, starting with the photograph Jay took of her abandoned body.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Ceola gets swept up playing girl detective, Bunny becomes increasingly skeptical of Jay, and begins her own investigation into the connection between Jay and Lily. She discovers a series of clues that place doubt on Jay's story about the photograph. She journeys to Washington, D.C., where she is forced to confront the brutal truth about her dear friendamp;mdash;a discovery that triggers a series of events that will bring tragedy to Jay and decades of estrangement between her and Ceola.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harlequin Love Inspired","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47150333264112,"sku":"2940169715743","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169715743_p0.jpg?v=1769899184","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169715743","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}