Thursday, June 16, 2022

Kicked the Bucket (A Chelsea Lawson Cozy Mystery Book 3)

 Author:    CeeCee James
Genre:     Mystery

Paperback; Digital Book
ISBN #:    9798662761469
Independently Published
212 Pages
$12.99; $2.99 Amazon
July 1, 2020

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Chelsea Lawson is a magnet for trouble. 

Sure, she's making a life for herself on her best friend's farm.  But feeding pets and milking the cows doesn't prepare you for finding a dead body floating in the pond.

Even stranger?  The bucket of flowers left on the shore.  Flowers that then seem to show up everywhere.

The more Chelsea learns about the dead man, the more she suspects he's tied up in her own knotted past.  And as the clues pile up, she starts to wonder if she's better off leaving this one to the police.

Then a letter arrives, threatening everything she's ever loved, and Chelsea realizes she can't stop now or someone close to her will pay the ultimate price.  Can she figure out how all the pieces fit together before it's too late?

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Chelsea Lawson has given up her old life to begin a new one living with her best friend Tilly and Tilly's daughter Emma on their farm.  She watches Emma whenever Tilly needs to go out of town, and Chelsea has her own job that she loves.  What she doesn't love is taking care of the farm animals, but she's learning.

One morning Tilly finds a body in a pond and it turns out to be a man who has ties to Chelsea's younger sister Nikki.  After learning what she can from the police, Chelsea finds it odd that someone is leaving her flowers with notes.  Notes that become ever threatening -- and leaves her wondering where Nikki is.  Her father has also disappeared, and she wants to know their whereabouts so she can help them.  But when she starts asking questions, it seems the wrong person overhears, and now Chelsea's admirer turns into a stalker.  If she doesn't figure things out soon, she might just be the next one to die...

This is the final installment in the mystery.  I did enjoy it for the most part, but like the other two, it left questions without answers.  Answers we'll probably never get.  I was disappointed in the ending because of this.  Others might have enjoyed the ending, but I found it lacking.  Sorry.



More on CeeCee James's Books:    https://www.fantasticfiction.com/j/ceecee-james/

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