Retirement is a time for knitting, gardening, and an occasional quiet lunch with friends, according to Kathleen Williamson. Her sister Andrea has an altogether different point of view. When the sisters go to the Canaan Valley to search for paintings mentioned in a document found in an old hotel once owned by their grandparents — paintings that might be Monets — Andrea immediately becomes involved … involved in tracking down a murderer. Kathleen would much rather be looking for the paintings, but she goes along with Andrea, since the victim was their hotel-keeper, murdered just down the hall from their room. The question is: Does the murder have something to do with the elusive paintings?
There are many clues and many suspects, including hotel staff, valley residents, and the mysterious foreigners who come from the Eastern Seaboard for skiing. There are also many types of danger — icy roads, sub-zero temperatures, and a killer who doesn’t care how many people die in the attempt to make sure the right ones do.
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Fun easy read!
The characters are likeable and I’m interested in what happens next. While this book was free for me through BookBub and Kobo I will be looking for the next installment at my own expense.
Intersting well written cozy
I enjoyed the book a great deal–I guess the moon was right!
I enjoyed it and immediately had to read the second book in the series. It does appear this is perhaps one book divided into multiple books. Each book is short and ends rather abruptly.
A good premise – two older women solving crimes, and that puts it in the ‘cozy’ mystery category. OK for a cozy, but a little stretchy in connecting things. It’s a series and maybe it improves with familiarity.
Predictable but cute.
Fun and easy to read.Keep me guessing.
Enjoyed this book. recommended if you like cozy mysteries.
Really enjoyed this one
Entertaining to read.
Good afternoon read. Liked the characters.
I loved this story! It was enough mystery, romance and intrigue to keep me till the very end!
A nice book to read if you don’t want to much drama, it is a mystery set in West Virginia and was like a book version of Murder She Wrote. A lot of the activity involves eating and the characters’ food choices which I find boring.
I liked that the lead characters were mature women past 50
A little bit repetitive but overall enjoyed story.
I enjoyed the earlier part of this book. It is obviously not written to a formula – thank goodness! In that respect it is original. What ruined the book for me was the constant put-down of the first person writer and the absolute hero worship of the older sister. I truly was sickened by the attitude of “I’m inept, but my smart sister can do …
Not my favorite. Felt as if I was ploughing through it.
This book makes me want to take a vacation in West Virginia.
Enjoyed this book. Two older sister help solve a murder and catch the persons responsible.