If you like crumbling antebellum mansions, moss-draped live oak trees, sultry Southern air, and unsolved mysteries from the past, then you'll love Ellen Hunter's books. Hunter will sign her new murder-mystery book, Murder at the Bellamy Mansion, on Thursday July 16 at 7 pm at the Bellamy Mansion in Wilmington.  

In Murder at the Bellamy Mansion, when Ashley Wilkes, historic preservationist, and her husband Jon volunteer to restore the belvedere atop the Bellamy Mansion, they have no idea the restoration project will unlease a rash of bizarre murders. First, their general contractor is wounded by a sharp-shooter from a fifth floor window at the Carolina Apartments. Then a guest dies mysteriously at a fund raiser. And a body is found floating in the old cistern. The police are baffled. If the belvedere is ever to be restored, Ashley will just have to catch the murderer herself and get the project back on schedule. Unless, of course, the murderer catches Ashley first!  

Location:  Bellamy Mansion, 503 Market Street, Wilmington, NC

Sponsored By Bellamy Mansion Museum of History & Design Arts, a stewardship property of Preservation North Carolina 

www.BellamyMansion.org