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Overdue or Die: 11/12/23

Overdue or Die

Overdue or Die by Allison Brook and Mia Gaskin (Narrator) (2023) is the seventh book in the Haunted Library mystery series. Carrie Singleton should be planning her wedding, or at least the engagement party, but she's preoccupied with the death of Martha Mallory, the woman who ran the local art gallery.

Martha's death is only the first. The murders seem to be tied up in an art forgery ring that was run, at least locally, out of the gallery. So Carrie has to learn about forgeries vs legitimate copies, and the reasons for both.

There's also a slide plot involving a lawyer who swindled a woman out of her property. Although the woman is suffering from dementia, the story of her house is the one piece of information that never wavers.

For the most part I enjoyed this mystery. Carrie and Dylan's wedding planning doesn't detract nor does it fall into hackneyed gender roles.

Where things fell apart for me was the inclusion of organized crime. Crime families just aren't my thing. They so often end up being omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent. Yes, they're connected but they are too big of a bad for the average amateur sleuth.

Four stars

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