Welcome to the Bean Hive Coffeehouse where the coffee is as hot as the gossip!“Fabulous fun and fantastic! Kappes nails small town mystery with another must-read hit. Don’t miss this one!”– Darynda Jones, New York Times Bestselling Author of Eighth Grave After DarkMaxine Bloom has always wanted to try her hand at acting and when Loretta Bebe is desperate for someone to fill a role in the local … role in the local play she’s directing for the Honey Springs Theater Company, she asks Maxi to fill in and Roxy knows Aunt Maxi’s head will grow like the gossip.
Aunt Maxi leaps at the chance for big theatrical debut in the charming play about a posh ‘60’s fur salon and the owner trying to run an honest business while his charming, yet caddish partner, Mr. Browning, is just trying to give a fur coat to his new mistress.
When the woman playing the mistress turns up dead the play comes to a complete halt until Sheriff Spencer Shepard lets Loretta reopen after the crime scene is fully swept.
In the meantime rumors are swirling like the snowflakes in Honey Springs and Roxy finds that she just can’t stop from hearing the gossip and trying to figure out who killed the amateur actress..after all the show must go on!
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Aunt Maxi is involved in a play production that Loretta is producing for the Honey Springs Theater Company. Things seem to be going pretty good until Loretta calls in some favors and suddenly everything is all messed up. Especially between Maxi and Loretta! Then someone is killed while the play is still in rehearsal. That isn’t the only thing going on in the wintertime at Honey Springs. Emily has some news of her own that surprises everyone! Can Roxy figure out who the killer is? Aunt Maxi looks pretty good as a suspect! You will need to read this wild and wacky story with the wonderful cast of characters to see what happens to whom. I voluntarily reviewed an ARC of this book.