Genre: Mystery
Trade Paperback; Digital Book
ISBN #: 9781516110490
Lyrical Underground
204 Pages
$15.95; $7.19 Amazon
April 27, 2021
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Summer in Boggy Creek has arrived, and Gia's best friend, successful real estate agent Savannah, is getting hitched. Now she's enlisted Gia's sleuthing talents in a desperate search for the perfect wedding dress. But when Savannah mysterious vanishes after showing a mansion to a bigwig client, Gia investigates the house Savannah was trying to sell. The first clue she finds is Savannah's car in the driveway. Inside the house, they stumble on Savannah's potential buyer -- dead. Someone had apparently closed the deal -- with a two by four full of nails to the client's head. Soon afterward, a woman's body is fished from the lake near the same house. The townsfolk are not sweating bullets over the murders, and the heat comes down on poor Gia to find her missing friend, and track down the killer...
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Gia Morelli owns the All Day Breakfast Café in Boggy Creek, Florida. Her best friend Savannah is a real estate agent, and has been given the opportunity to show a mansion to Buster Clarke. When Earl, the cafe's first (and regular) customer hears about it, he asks Savannah not to go. When she won't budge, he asks her to bring someone with her. But Savannah, insistent she knows what she's doing, doesn't take his advice. When Savannah doesn't return at an allotted time when she was supposed to pick out her wedding dress with Gia, Gia gets worried enough that she enlists the help of her friend Trevor to go find her.
When they arrive at the mansion, they don't find Savannah, but they do find a very dead Buster. They call the police, and Savannah's police officer boyfriend Leo, and cousin Hunt, chief detective, show up and are worried sick for her. But Gia feels guilty and isn't about to let Hunt look for Savannah without her. Now Gia needs to figure out who took her friend -- but when rival business people (and possibly underworld figures) the Clarkes and Espositios get involved, it soon becomes clear that something much larger is occurring -- and Gia might be right in the middle of it...
This is the fifth book in the series, and I must say that I enjoyed it so thoroughly that I read it in one sitting. The action starts right at the beginning, and then twists all its threads to go in different directions that keep you wondering where they're going to lead. Once you decide that you know where everything is heading, it changes, and there's secrets and surprises galore.
One big surprise shows up later in the book, and it could change everything that's been going on, and the person to figure it out isn't Gia, which is another surprise. But the threads finally come together, and you get to see the picture that is being woven. When it all comes together in the end, it does so not without losses, but gives us something to look forward to in the next book. Highly recommended.
More on Lena Gregory's Books: https://www.fantasticfiction.com/g/lena-gregory/
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