Monday, August 26, 2019

Full Bloom

Holly and Ivy Donnelly travel to Catskills in New York to visit Kate Farmer when they find themselves involved in a murder. In Full Bloom (A Holly and Ivy Mystery) by Sally Handley, no sooner do they unpack their bags when they discover the body of Kate's next door neighbor Chuck.

It seems someone put an axe into his back and left him for dead. Kate's next door neighbor Chuck has been murdered and the sisters decide they will try to solve the case. But there is more to this murder then meets the eye.

There have been a rash of burglaries in town and the officious Sheriff Cyrus Bascom has his sights set on 17-year-old Tommy Cranston and his friends, not only for the burglaries, but now for the murder. Tommy's mother Raquelle appeals to the sisters for help in clearing her son.

There are other suspects including Boyd Leggett, the not so trustworthy son of Kate's next door neighbor. While his mother is rehabbing from a broken hip in a nursing home, Boyd and his lowlife friends have been drinking and blasting music, plus burning some toxic-smelling stuff in the back yard.

Another suspect is Chuck's ex-wife Flo, who seems inordinately happy that her ex is dead and gives Holly and Ivy an urn with his ashes.

While Holly tries to solve the murder, Ivy attempts to decipher what caused the break up between her sister and New Jersey detective Nick Manelli. With their investigating, they find themselves in the middle of something dangerous and scary.  An enjoyable mystery with two sisters who act just like sisters do in real life.

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