Botched 4 Murder

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Murder finds Phee Kimball investigating again along with her mother and her cronies from Sun City West. In Botched 4 Murder by J.C. Eaton, Phee would much prefer doing her accounting job at Williams Investigations, but her mother insists she get involved.

When a proposal to turn the golf courses surrounding the retirement community into parks and nature preserves gets the residents of Sun City West up in arms, Phee's mother and friends ae leading the fight against the plan.  On top of that the Bocce League is trying to boot Myrna, one of her mother's club friends from the team because she is awful, and no amount of practice seems to be helping.

When an errant bocce ball thrown by Myrna lands on the golf course and the organizer of the park plan is found dead, Myrna is sure the bocce ball killed her. Trying to calm down the hysterical woman, Phee notices an arrow in the victim's neck, which appears more likely to be the cause of death. 

It seems the victim Sorrel Harlan, newly appointed to the recreation center board of directors, had found some support for turning the golf courses into eco-friendly parks. A vote was close at hand, but now with her dead, the vote is postponed. There are plenty of suspects including all the owners whose homes ring the golf course.

Phee Kimball and her mother's book club are terrific characters and they make this series highly entertaining and enjoyable to read.

Disclosure: I received this book from the publisher.