Murder Takes a Clue

As many of you know I am a huge Agatha Christie fan and The Book Club Murders bought out the Christie fan in me. Leslie Nagel sets her book in Oakwood, Ohio, Charley Carpenter is the owner of a clothing store called Old Hat Vintage Fashions and hopes to draw the wealthy elite to her shop.

She joins the Agathas Book Club with some of the snootiest women in the area in hopes of generating some new clients. As she is driving to the next book club meeting, Charley happens upon a road block of police cards positioned across the road near a railroad underpass. Something big must have happened, she thinks, and drives away to the book club meeting for which she is, as usual, late.

One of the Agathas reports on the few facts she knows about the murder, and the rest are eager for details. When the Detective Marcus Trenault to break the news to book club

member Lindy Taylor about the death of her sister Serena Wyndham, the book club becomes involved. Before too long another member is found murdered. What is the connection between the two murders? Is the murderer imitating the crime scenes of Agatha Christie books?

When a third murder takes place, Charley begs Detective Trenault to let her work as an inside informant to the club. Before long Charley finds herself in a dangerous situation and uses her Agatha Christie mystery solving techniques to find the murder.

This was an excellent book and I look forward to others, especially if they pay homage to Agatha Christie.For more books by Leslie Nagel, click here.