Murder Was Trivial

Bruce Santori had been employed for nine months as host of the weekly Wednesday evening trivia contests at a local New Jersey restaurant, when he was shot dead while walking through a park toward the bank where he had his day job.Bruce was known as a very competent and creative host; but some players felt that he was also very nasty, mainly because he strictly enforced all the rules.Two months later, the police had made no progress in solving the murder, and the owner of the restaurant where Bruce had hosted the trivia contests secured the services of smart, sexy supersleuth Amy Bell to investigate the case.But what was the motive? Might a trivia player actually kill a host for being nasty by enforcing rules? That seemed very unlikely. Amy discovered other aspects of Bruce's life, which might have provided a motive for murder. But those possible motives also seemed very weak.Amy decided that she must be missing something, somewhere--something big. But what?Author David Schwinger, when not writing Amy Bell mysteries--there are now nineteen--enjoys playing trivia, composing songs, and traveling the world with his wife, Sherryl. David first met Sherryl when she was his student in a mathematics class he taught at City College of New York. Their secret romance became the inspiration for his first Amy Bell mystery, The Teacher's Pet Murders.