Best friends, Suzie and Mary, love running Dune House, the majestic bed and breakfast on the beach, with their adorable, yellow Labrador, Pilot, by their side. They are enjoying living and working together and are looking forward to hosting a national walking group in Garber for a few days.But when they stumble across a skeleton, they find themselves right in the middle of a baffling mystery. Who … mystery. Who is the victim? Who is the murderer? And why? Then something from the crime scene disappears.
Suzie and Mary have to traverse a maze of clues and suspects in order to unravel the mystery. But will the trail lead the sleuths down the wrong path. They find themselves juggling running the bed and breakfast, their developing romances and helping crack the mystery.
Suzie and Mary walk straight towards danger. Will they be able to stay alive long enough to solve this perplexing whodunit?
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While I absolutely love this series and Cindy Bell’s books in general, there is a reason I only gave this book four stars. It has nothing to do with the mystery which is top notch. What it comes down to is just my personal taste and the subject matter surrounding the mystery didn’t interest me as much as others have in the past.
Mary and Suzie, who run the bed and breakfast at Dune House always seem to find themselves in the middle of a mystery because it usually involves their guests in some manner. I think background checks might be in order in the future so that they know what they might be getting into. LOL! I love their curious natures and the unbending loyalty of their significant others and friends. The only thing that bothers me at times is that there are too many people involved and it can be difficult to keep everyone’s stories straight. Whatever my quirks may be, I still highly recommend this series as well as all of her other series especially if you love cozy mysteries.
cold-case, cozy-mystery, bed-and-breakfast, family, relationships, greed
Two good friends who run a lovely B&B are hosting a small group of walkers who decide that where they want to explore is an abandoned gold mine. No one expected to find a skeleton in one of the tunnels, but that wasn’t the only mystery! A good story full of twists and red herrings!
Suzie and Mary are best friends running Dune House, a charming bed and breakfast near the coast. Always looking forward to additional opportunities to promote their business, they decided to host a national walking group who were considering the town of Garber and more importantly Dune House, as one of their destinations. The location is the perfect area to hike the trails, investigate an old mine, and encounter a skeleton.
I always enjoy the comradery between Suzie and Mary, how they watch out for each other, and contribute to finding justice. As they attempt to figure out the story behind the skeleton’s death, who he was, and why he was murdered, their clues take them into some dangerous territory. The story is well crafted with interesting characters, and plenty of false clues adding to the confusion of the murder. Once again, I could not figure out the suspect! The Dune House series always provides the perfect backdrop to an enjoyable cozy. I received an advanced reader copy from the author in exchange for this honest review.
Friends Suzie Allen and Mary Brent are the owners of Dune House, a Bed and Breakfast in Garber. They have five walkers from a National Group staying at Dune House for a few days. They want to explore the trails in and around Garber. One they are particularly interested in has a waterfall. Suzie and Mary have never seen the waterfall so they decide to walk with them. Detective Jason Allen, Suzie’s cousin warns Suzie about a mine that is on that trail that has been closed for more than twenty years. When they find the waterfall they also find the mine. The group decides they want to explore the old mine as well. As they go through the mine they happen to find a skeleton with a duffel bag at his side propped up in a corner. He appears to have been shot. The group leaves the mine and Suzie calls Jason to let him know what they have found. When the crime scene investigators go into the mine to recover the body, it appears the duffel bag is missing.
When Suzie and Mary begin investigating to find out who the skeleton is and who killed him, they discover it could be a man who disappeared about that time, Jimmy Tomson.
While investigating they meet resistance from one of the owners of the mine, Donald Laller and his son Robert. The other owner, Terrance Calor, resides in France. Suzie engages the help of her boyfriend, Paul, who knows Robert.
They also discover that one of their guests, Charlie Hume, has lived in Garber and also worked at the mine prior to its closing.
The story becomes a cat and mouse game and you won’t be able to put the book down until the end.
I received an advanced copy of this book. This is my honest review.