Publisher: Sartoris Literary Group, Inc. Release Date: July 5, 2013
Review:
This a a real small town feel mystery. The characters were at times laughable. I know! For a book that has murder in the title it is hard to believe. I remember a series The Scarecrow and Mrs King with Kate Jackson and I so pictured her as Lillie Mae. So Clare Ballard has a bruise and the entire town takes it and runs. The things they imagine. The ladies of the Thursday Morning Breakfast Club start gossiping that her husband Roger is abusing her.
All of this is going down and then another member Hester Franklin has to bail her grandson Patrick out of jail. He was arrested for drugs! Now she thinks her grandson is innocent, what else can she think in this case.
So the body of a dealer is discovered and this causes an eruption. The gossip, rumors and accusations fly. When one of the original leaders Alice has an incident, it makes all of them re-think their positions. I was wondering who put the drugs into Patrick’s truck and it had me going!
I will say I found it to be a cutesy type of book. I know some of the subjects, like a drug deals and spousal abuse are not funny, but these ladies made me think differently. I adored the names and the descriptions. So if you adore cozy mysteries this is your cup of coffee or tea. This should be a series and I know I would read them all. Great job keeping me entertained!
Meet the author:
Liz Stauffer wrote stories in high school, but transferred her writing skills to the corporate world after her divorce from an Air Force pilot, as a means of supporting her two young sons. Moving between educational research and the computer world, she wrote everything from political encyclopedias and travel articles, to marketing literature and software manuals. But it wasn’t until she found herself stranded in a South Dakota winter, that she returned to writing fiction.
After a successful corporate career, Liz gave up that world to travel and to write, and in some cases, to combine her two loves. Having lived in some fourteen states during her early adult years, she’s traveled to all fifty states, and to some fifty countries on four continents. When not traveling, she lives with her two dogs in Hollywood, Florida.
For several years after retiring, Liz lived six months a year in Pen Mar, Maryland, a small community nestled into the foothills of the Appalachians, straddling the Maryland/Pennsylvania border, her house just feet from the Appalachian Trail. Pen Mar, once the site of a grand summer resort built by the railroad in the late nineteenth century, is the inspiration for the site of her Thursday Morning Breakfast and Murder Club mysteries. Her protagonist, Lillie Mae Harris, shares some of her own interests. Both women love to talk, love their friends and family but also love to meet new people, love to be outside, and love to hike. Lillie Mae would bike as much as Liz does, if the country roads she cruises were supportive to biking. Liz also has a great love of the beach, which Lillie Mae finds hot and tedious.
Currently Liz is working on the third Thursday morning breakfast club mystery and is planning a grand epic that features the Pen Mar Park and Resort.
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