Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Bacon, Bodyguards and Ballistics (A Piper Sandstone Cozy Culinary Mystery #4)

Author:    Karen McSpade
Genre:     Mystery

Digital Book
ASIN #:    B09YDPTSKR
Newcastle Media
76 Pages
$2.99 Amazon
May 24, 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 horizPon -- 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 she or another Savory resident winds up dead?

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Piper Sandstone is enjoying her new life as a private investigator with her four senior friends, and they're on the trail of an art heist.  The problem is that they don't have any real leads...until now.  When a friend of one of the ladies is suspected in the theft, it turns out she's the only one who thinks that they're innocent.  But are they?  And will the four capture the thief before Piper's location is discovered?

When Piper's cop friends back in Chicago are ambushed, they know they have to get to her fast.  Before the killers do.  But is there a clue to Piper's whereabouts?  And how do they know it's her? 

This is the fourth book in the series, and keeps you on the edge of your seat while you wait to see if Piper will solve the case, or if the bad guys will reach her first -- or will both happen simultaneously?  (I don't know yet).  Still, it's a riveting section of the full novel, and worth getting into.  I have enjoyed each and every one of these so far, and can't wait to read the final book and discover the conclusion.  Piper and her friends have become quite lovely to have around, and the ladies are a hoot in their own way.  Now if everyone would just stay out of the funhouse...

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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