Librarian Amy Webber is enjoying life. She’s engaged to her sweetheart, Richard, and
her best friend, Sunny, is making a run for mayor, and may stand a chance at
unseating the obnoxious incumbent. That
is, until a skeleton turns up—not in Sunny’s closet, but on her grandparents’
organic farm. While now the farm is seen
as mostly respectable now, it was also a commune back in the 1960s, where local
gossip links it to drugs, sex, and rock and roll. And now, maybe murder. It’s going to be up to
Amy with help from Richard, Aunt Lydia, and maybe even the somewhat sinister
Kurt to find out what really happened back in the day.
This is the fourth in the Blue
Ridge Library Mystery series, so characters are well established. Even so, I don’t think it would be difficult
for a new reader to sort out the relationships (with the possible exception of
Kurt—I sense mixed messages on the author’s part in regard to him) because the
murder happened so long ago that Amy and even Sunny have to learn about the
people and social conditions involved.
For those of a certain age, some of their musings will be a bit of a
blast from the past, albeit a rather sanitized version.
As usual, there are some character plotlines in the background.
The attempt to smear Sunny’s mayoral run is front and center, but Amy and
Richard are also busy trying to plan their wedding. This is in the face of
disapproval from Richard’s mother who had counted on her son marrying—well, not
Amy. The series is pleasant, with
likeable characters. It’s fun to spend a few hours in their company.
The series in order:
A Murder for the Books
Shelved Under Murder
Past Due for Murder
Bound for Murder
A Deadly Edition
Renewed for Murder (Dec. 2021)
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