Author: Shelley Shearer
Genre: Mystery
Paperback; Digital Book (Audiobook Available)
ISBN #: 9781958321010
Tannhauser Press
211 Pages
$12.99; $4.99 Amazon
February 9, 2024
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Remi McKenna is co-hosting a letterboxing event, but her weekend plans are not all fun and games when best friend Trace Cooper is the target of a stalker. An inheritance of a stone manor house means she hopes this will be the start of her new life in Northern Virginia. Can Remi juggle the event, start planning her game-themed B&B, and solve the mystery of Trace's strange messages? Things escalate into a real-life game of Clue when Remi finds a dead body in the garden.
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Remi McKenna quit her job and left the state when she inherited a huge old home from her late aunt. Along with her is her best friend Trace Cooper, and they're off to their new adventure...somewhat. It seems that Trace's downstairs neighbor has been found murdered, and that's not a good start. Even though neither of them knew him, they had no idea this was just the beginning to a bigger mystery...
Remi has agreed to cohost a letterbox event with her friends Alice and Jason at their farm, which they are trying to turn into an inn. Unfortunately, there's also an alien event going on in town, which means the inn is full, and the barn and yard is full of tents with people who are attending one event or the other. Remi only hopes she can keep up with it all.
But it's soon apparent that Trace has a stalker who knows her every move, even here at their getaway. Trace acts nonchalant, but Remi is worried, and doesn't want her to go anywhere alone. Then 'accidents' are occurring to people who are around Trace, and Remi is more than alert, especially when she finds the body of a man who hit on Trace. Can she find the killer and get through the weekend unscathed, or will this be her first -- and final -- event?
This is the first book that I have read by this author, and I have to say that I enjoyed it. I know nothing about letterboxing, but the best way I can explain it is that it's like Geocaching, but with written clues instead of coordinates, less intricate, and using rubber stamps.
That being said, it was an interesting plot line and I thought that it was written well with enough intrigue to keep one interested throughout. There are plenty of suspects, and also a lot of red herrings. After all, there is only one killer, but they are not that easy to figure out, which I appreciated. I love a good mystery that keeps me on my toes.
When we discovered the murderer, it came as a complete surprise, which it should, and the reason for the killing was insane; but then again, this is a killer and they never make sense anyway! The only thing I have to wonder is if a gaming B&B could make money; but you see, when I go to one, I do so to relax and just enjoy what is around me, not to do what it is I do all the time anyway. Those, of course, are just my thoughts and we will have to see what the author does in the next book, right?
In the end, very good mystery, surprise of a killer, and very good writing. I will read the next in the series.
More on Shelly Shearer's Books: https://www.fantasticfiction.com/s/shelley-shearer/
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