The Secret at the Lost Little Mill: A Marcy Dehanne Grist Mill Mystery

In the far western North Carolina mountains, intrepid grist mill enthusiast and consultant is intrigued by stories of massacre and revenge and hidden treasure dating to the 1880s, and more importantly the possibility of finding a lost "tub" mill, a rare survivor of its type. Dangerous hints and encounters should deter her as she seeks answers: Who owns the Stepback Mountain land? Who doesn't want her and her sidekicks nosing around. And Why? In this, Marcy's fourth grist mill mystery, she doesn't find a dead body but death and danger follow close upon her heels as she is determined to find the secret surrounding the long lost little tub mill.

Celia Miles is a retired community college instructor who enjoys writing and reading mysteries and seeking out stone circles and water-powered mills in her travels. Living in Asheville, she writes about what intrigues her and inspires her--and the ingenuity and technology of early grist mills do both. This is her eleventh novel, all set in (or mostly in) her native western North Carolina.