Other editions of book Murder at the Grill

Veronica Whittier gets out of the car and sees a church with stained glass windows and a steeple --- not a house. Is this where she is supposed to live? Her parents have bought this one hundred-year-old building, recently converted into restaurant, on a peninsula sticking out into the Pacific Ocean. But that is not all that is strange about it. Just across the bay is a tall, black mountain. Is that smoke or are those clouds that Veronica sees hanging over it? The previous owner claims that the volcano is dormant and has not erupted in “human memory.” Veronica is not so sure. Then there is the unkempt, dark-haired dude with patches on his clothing who seems to have come with the restaurant --- Clifford. He is mean to Veronica from the beginning. He keeps on telling her that he wishes that she would go home even as he sweeps floors and does garden work for her parents. When he runs into her investigating noises at night, he rudely shoves her back into her room and even locks the door. He tells her to mind her own business. Veronica meets the other islanders, a gang of kids her own age, who live on the rocky promontory that juts out into the sea where the volcano is located. They don’t want her to have to stay locked up all day at the Sanctuary Grill with Clifford. But it is when they take her out on the town and decide to show Veronica a good time, that the plot reaches its “explosive” climax. The volcano has a few things to say about it, too.