MY TAKE - The book is filled with interesting and colorful characters, including the main character, Sophie who works doing accounting at her boyfriend's investigation job. Of course, Streetman, the dog kicked off the mystery by finding a body...
The author presents several characters who are suspect, and keeps you guessing until near the end. It was a good and enjoyable mystery and I look forward to reading more of them.
I think it was written more for women, since the lead character is a woman, and supporting characters include her elderly mother (Streetman's mom), and her retirees in a book club and dog contest grouping, but it was fun. - Rob
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Last one standing is the winner . . .
The holiday season has arrived and bookkeeper/amateur sleuth, Sophie “Phee” Kimball, would love nothing more than to enjoy the comforts of her new home with her detective boyfriend near Arizona’s Sun City West. Instead, her mother Harriet wants to showcase her chiweenie-chihuahua-dachshund Streetman in the Precious Pooches Holiday Extravaganza costume events. The festivities begin in October and end on St. Patrick’s Day—with the winner starring in the St. Pat’s Day parade. But things quickly turn an awful shade of green when Streetman uncovers a dead body under a tarp-covered grill in the neighbor’s yard.
The victim is Cameron Tully, a seafood distributor working out of Phoenix, who died from ingesting a toxic sago palm leaf. Before the police can even find a motive and suspect, another Precious Pooch owner nearly dies from the same poison. With Harriet believing someone’s targeting her and Streetman because of the costume contests, Phee will need a potful of Irish luck to sniff out a killer . . .
Praise for the Sophie Kimball Mysteries
“An eclectic cast of entertaining characters that will keep you wondering whodunit!”
—USA Today Bestselling Author Nicole Leiren, on Staged 4 Murder
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