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Take the Honey and Run: 11/24/23
Take the Honey and Run by Jennie Marts and Cris Dukehart (Narrator) (2023) is the start of the Bee Keeping mystery series. Bailey Briggs, author of murder mysteries has brought her teenaged daughter to Humble Hills after her grandmother suffered a bad fall. Shortly after arriving, the mayor is murdered and it looks like grandma's honey is the murder weapon. Like the mayor in A Flock and a Fluke by Hillary Avis (2020), Humble Hills's mayor is corrupt. He though, was far worse than Honeytree's. After decades in control through blackmail and who knows what else, clearly someone had had enough. Although there's potentially an entire mountain town's worth of murderers, the initial set up reminded me of the typical Death in Paradise mystery. From the large pool of suspects, there's really only a half dozen at most. A reader familiar with that kind of mystery will spot the killer well before Bailey does. But it's fun seeing Bailey and her hometown BFF attack sleuthing with the knowledge of Jessica Fletcher but the common sense of Lucy and Ethel. Five stars Comments (0)
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