Author: Karen MacInerney
Genre" Mystery
Digital Book (Audiobook Available)
ASIN #: B072MJXGFY
Gray Whale Press
256 Pages
$4.99 Amazon
September 4, 2017
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It's Halloween in Buttercup, Texas, and reporter-turned-farmer Lucy Resnick is up to her ears in more than goats and wayward cows. Not only has her well dried up, but it turns out the old house Lucy recently moved to the farm has a reputation for spooks...and they are disturbingly active. Then a tarot card reading at a local mead winery foretells death...and minutes later, exotic game ranch owner Bug Wharton goes belly-up. Cause of death? Murder, by a fatal dose of bee venom.
When the dimwitted sheriff fingers local witch and mead winery owner Serafine Alexandre, Lucy gets involved...and soon discovers that all kinds of things are brewing in Buttercup.
And some of them are deadly.
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Lucy Resnick used to be an investigative reporter in Houston, Texas, but moved to the small town of Buttercup and purchased her grandmother's old farm and now has a new life. Unfortunately, that new life isn't without problems. Fraught with a well run dry, an old small historical home on her property that may be haunted, and the idea of a mythical creature called a Chupacabra killing livestock, she takes a break to attend a Halloween gathering at a local mead winery run by a new friend., Seraphine, who's also reputed to be a witch.
But shortly after someone predicts death, Seraphine and exotic game ranch owner Bug Wharton have words, after which his brother runs in stating Bug is dying -- and they discover that he's been bitten by a bee, which he's allergic to. When it's discovered Bug has been murdered, the sheriff -- who's known to take the easy way out -- arrests Seraphine for the murder. But Lucy and her friends have other ideas, and Lucy sets about finding a killer. Now all she has to do is try and stay under the radar...
This is the third book in the series and I really enjoyed the first two. Having a penchant for "reading the season," as it were, I wanted to read this because it takes place at Halloween. However, it has very little to do with Halloween, and the holiday is really only mentioned in passing. Just sayin'
Anyway, Lucy has a lot of troubles this time out, but spends most of her time trying to solve the murder instead of thinking of ways to save her farm, more or less depending on friends to help. Which is fine and dandy, but you'd think she would have known how much it really takes to run a farm, and had more savings than she did. What is she going to do if there is another problem? Maybe she can write articles online for a newspaper or something to make extra money...
Anyway, once Lucy starts investigating, she enlists the help of her beau, veterinarian Tobias, and together they discover things they'd rather not; and when a local farmhand is attacked, they know that they're getting closer to the truth.
When the ending comes and the killer is revealed, I pretty much had it figured out by this point; it was just waiting to see how Lucy put it together that finished it. However, the ending was done nicely and I will continue to read this series.
More on Karen MacInerney's Books: https://www.fantasticfiction.com/m/karen-macinerney/
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