This enterprise rapidly sours when the best man disappears, leaving the groom behind on the mainland to retrieve him. Nonetheless, Julia optimistically proceeds, beginning the season with a wedding event that she has agreed to host on the family’s island. While Julia does succeed in creating a satisfactory business plan, the agreement permits the business only a few days of income-losing downtime. Julia leaves New York and her high-powered position as a venture capitalist, to employ her corporate skills to negotiate a reprieve from the bank seeking to foreclose on the family business. Echoing a refrain common to the cozy genre these days, Ross conveys her protagonist, Julia Snowden, back to her hometown to run a business, in this case the foundering Snowden Family Clambake Company. Barbara Ross has concocted a wicked good series opener, Clammed Up, the first Maine Clambake Mystery.
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