A Lethal Journey

Description for A LETHAL JOURNEY by Elizabeth Penney:

Sofia Parker needs a summer break as badly as her children and husband, and they find a wonderful diversion at a cabin on Lake Champlain.  Joined by Sofia's Pinot Painter friends, Julie Butler and Marla Dixon, Sofia is reveling in the two-week vacation---until apparent tragedy strikes.

Julie's kid brother, Ian, shows up at the butler cabin for a surprise visit, but then goes missing the next morning.  With his clothes found on the doc, the group fears he may have gone for a swim alone during the night and then drowned.

But that working theory quickly is undermined by the appearance of seedy characters in search of Ian and his personal effects.  Has he been kidnapped, or possibly even worse?  Local authorities seem to think not, so it is up to Sofia and company to get to the bottom of the case.

This is #12 in Annie's Secrets of the Quilt Series.