A
Catered Fourth Of July
Isis
Crawford
Kensington, Jun 24
2014, $24.00
ISBN 9780758274915
Residents of Longley, New York look forward
to the Fourth of July shindig in spite of the summer Westchester heat; with
many looking forward to the Revolutionary War reenactment of the Battle of
Meadow Creek. However, at the gala in
Highland Park, performer Jack Devlin fires his musket; only it explodes and
kills him. Rick Evans accuses Marvin,
who was responsible for checking all equipment including the weapons as Jack’s
flintlock was obviously tampered by someone.
At the lethal enactment, owners of A Little Taste of Heaven Bernie and Libby Simmons fear that Police
Chief Lucas will arrest the latter’s
boyfriend Marvin for the murder. When
someone shoots at Marvin’s car, the cops ignore the attempted murder as their
focus remains on him being the only suspect; leaving it to the Simmons sisters,
their dad the retired police chief and Bernie’s boyfriend Brandon to
investigate.
The latest Simmons sleuth sisters’ holiday mystery (see A Catered
Christmas Cookie Exchange, A Catered Birthday Party and A Catered Halloween) is a wonderful
lighthearted culinary cozy with a numerous people having a motive to kill the
philandering victim. Subgenre readers
will appreciate this lighthearted July 4th whodunit as the bickering
siblings compete with reenactors, cops, Hilda, Wiccan and a horde who know Jack
too well.
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