This is a great book - I loved the history of Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin, the Revolutionary War and all the antiques that are mentioned.

When a group of mostly total strangers are contacted that they are beneficiaries in a will that was written over 200 years ago they are both surprised and pleased. They have to go to Philadelphia and stay for a week while the terms of the will are completed. Millie is poor, a student working as a nurses aide and raising her son alone. A patient at the nursing home arranges for funding for her to go to Philadelphia. There she meets seven others who are there for the will plus a lawyer, a banker, a butler and a housekeeper. When one of the heirs is killed everyone starts getting suspicious of everyone else - then another is killed and the chase is on, will more people be killed or will the killer be caught, and who is that killer? And why?

I was close to the guessing the killer but in the end I went the wrong way, so I was surprised at the "who" but not the why.

I highly recommend this book and can't wait to read the next story in the series. ( )

This book was okay. I was excited to read it because I was in Philadelphia a couple of weeks ago and saw the historic sites. Somehow, knowing the locations and how a city looks always makes a book seem more "alive" to me. Anyway, the history and location parts were very good. The mystery part was sufficiently deceptive so that I didn't guess who it was until the reveal. However, in making all the characters except Millie potential suspects, the author made them unlikeable, with one exception. Anyway, when all of the characters are so unlikeable, it is hard for me to love the story. ( )