Book Review: Donna Andrews’ No Nest for the Wicket
Croquet is a genteel game; eXtreme croquet is a whole other story. Still, no one was expecting homicide until Meg slides into the body of a dead woman.
Croquet is a genteel game; eXtreme croquet is a whole other story. Still, no one was expecting homicide until Meg slides into the body of a dead woman.
It’s one break-in after another from the ghostly intruder at Black House to the sneak thief at the Salty Dog with Ellery Page reluctantly pulled in to both crimes.
Feral turkeys and an out-of-control makeover show create havoc on Bland Street while Meg Langslow and the mayor try to round everyone up.
Mysterious gifts turn deadly, and in a town where dead bodies pile up faster than competitive pecan pies at the county fair, Tess is scared the next “gift” might be her!
When her sister-in-law is late for her own induction, Aurora Teagarden, a mild-mannered librarian, stops by only to find Poppy dead on the floor. Complicating Roe’s life, in a good way, is Robin’s re-entry into her life and a surprise visit from a runaway.
Lily Bard finds a fellow gym member murdered. Three unsolved, seemingly unconnected murders in two months with an anonymous white supremacist group is threatening people. And there’s a new man in town, someone whose face reminds Lily of the darkest time in her past.
In the uneasy peace following World War I, nurse Bess Crawford runs into trouble and treachery in Ireland in the wake of the bloody 1916 Easter Rising when any Irish person who served in France is now considered a traitor.
Against the backdrop of filming Robin Crusoe’s book, a vicious serial killer is operating. It’s up to Aurora Teagarden to reprise her role as amateur sleuth and stop the carnage before it gets out of hand.
Caught in a deadly feud between two families, Bess Crawford’s life is endangered as she struggles to keep order within the family and against the police.
Escaping a dark and violent past, Lily Bard falls into a new misadventure when she’s in the wrong place at the wrong time. Lily doesn’t care who did it, but then the police and local community start pointing fingers in her direction.