Fiction, Cozy Mystery, #5 in series
4****
Blurb: It’s Saint Patrick’s Day weekend in chilly upstate New York, and Samantha Davies, children’s picture book author and sometime sleuth, is excited to attend the annual outdoors games put on by the local Wings Falls fire company. It will be a weekend filled with fun activities such as a skillet toss, four-wheeler race, and the ever-popular decorated wooden outhouse race across the ice. Sam is looking forward to dancing the night away with her beau, police detective Hank Johnson at the Firefighter’s Ball. Sam’s rug hooking group, the Loopy Ladies is sponsoring one of the outhouses and their senior member, Gladys O’Malley, will have the honor of riding on the “throne” to the finish line. Only not all goes as planned when the neighboring fire company’s chief is found in Gladys’ place—frozen solid and dead as a doornail! To make matters worse, both Gladys’ and Sam’s fingerprints are all over the evidence at the murder scene, taking them from attendees to suspects. Now it’s up to Sam to clear their names and get to the truth. The only problem is the victim had disagreements with almost everyone in town, from the Wings Falls fire chief to a sexy blonde named Sunny Foxx—with two xx’s—and a slew of other suspects. Can Sam find the killer before the Luck of the Irish runs out for her? Or will she become chilled to the bone when the killer catches up to her…
THOUGHTS: I love these stories, and this one is no different. Porkchop – a lovable dachshund- makes a return appearance as do the Loopy Ladies. Sam and her rug-looping friends decorate a homemade outhouse with their rugs for the upcoming races, but when then arrive, rather than the race, they find a dead body in theirs. And the race is on to find out who the perp is before Sam gets accused of murder.
Recommended.
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