Second book in the Riverwalk Series. Fiona Wade discovers the body of a local politician, who is also the drum major at the palace Drum and Fife Corps, stuck on the wall of a New Bern, NC historic home. Is the motive for murder dirty politics, greed, or something else? She is determined to find the murderer while defending the former first lady, balancing her roles of mother, grandmother and spouse to a nautically inclined husband - al while trying to prepare her holiday's meal A great weekend read which doubles as a New Bern Guide book.