Author: Karen McSpade
Genre: Mystery
Digital Book
ASIN #: B09X7J9G6W
Newcastle Media
52 Pages
$.99 Amazon
May 22, 2022
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Reeling with excitement over the opening of a private investigation agency and her budding romance with the sheriff, Piper Sandstone can't wait to launch her dream career and return to a somewhat normal life. But danger lurks on the horizon -- the dirty cops back in Chicago still want her dead. Even if it means putting the people she loves in jeopardy to find her. They are ruthless and on the hunt, no price is too steep for her head.
But Piper's already in a predicament of prodigious proportions when an art heist at the Bancroft Estates leaves a bodyguard dead...and she and her crime-fighting gal pals are at the center of the crime scene.
Tangled in another mystery in Savory, Alabama, Piper is determined to solve the case with the help of her quirky amateur sleuth friends dubbed the Dentures and Diamonds Crime Squad. These zany retirees traded in their female rock band glory to fight crime, but can they help Piper maintain her cover and catch the killer before or another Savory resident winds up dead?
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Piper Sandstone, aka Sharon, has just opened the Queen's Bees Privates firm along with her senior sleuthing friends, Doris, Rosemary, Patty Sue, and Margie, (aka The Delta Queens) and they're just off a case of finding a killer and a champion dog. Now they're ready for business. But before they do so, they're attending the dog show at the estate of a wealthy art collector. Unfortunately, things don't go well -- the art is stolen right off the walls, and during the show. So now they have to wonder who would have planned something like this? It doesn't help when the owner Henry Hughes, shows up, screaming at everyone, nor when the PIs find a dead security guard,
Someone had to know about the heist. Was it the security guard they found, Marco Jenkins? Or the IT guy who claims a hacker broke into the system? Or was it someone close to Mr. Hughes, who might have thought this was a good opportunity? But Piper knows art like this can't be sold, and only another private investor will buy it. So where do they go from here?
With the unwanted help of Piper's new bodyguard, Gemma Bianchi, hired by her uncle, Chief Hobbs, to protect her (really, how can a woman so small protect anyone?), and Gemma constantly telling her everything Piper does is a bad idea, she's still determined to solve the case. If the PIs don't they might just be relegated to more cases involving cows (read the book to find out). But just as things seem to be getting interesting, her Chicago friends Nancy and Morgan have surprises in store for them.
Being the first book in the new series, I liked where it started -- after the murder, where it backtracked a bit -- and of course, being a serial book, there was a cliffhanger; but I didn't let this distract me at all from the book itself, which is written well and pulls you into the story immediately. The only downside is that you have to wait for the next to see what Piper and her friends are up to. A great beginning for a new book in the life of Piper Sandstone. I can't wait to read the next.
I received a copy of this book from the author but this in no way influenced my review.
More on Karen McSpade's Books: https://www.fantasticfiction.com/m/karen-mcspade/
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