Film lover Barbara Marr is a typical suburban mom living the typical suburban life in her sleepy little town of Rustic Woods, Virginia. Typical, that is until she sets out to find the missing link between a bizarre monkey sighting in her yard and the bone chilling middle-of-the-night fright fest at the strangely vacant house next door. When Barb talks her two friends into some seemingly innocent … innocent Charlie’s Angels-like sleuthing, they stumble upon way more than they bargained for and uncover a piece of neighborhood history that certain people would kill to keep on the cutting room floor.
Semi-Finalist, 2009 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest
Book 1 in the bestselling *Barbara Marr* Murder Mystery Series
237 pages of laugh-out-loud fun.
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If you’re a Stephanie Plum fan, you’ll love this fast-paced light-hearted mystery packed with humor and well-drawn characters. Barbara Marr, our plucky middle-aged protagonist, is going through more than a midlife crisis (marital woes, a significant birthday, an old flame and…monkeys) and enlists the help of her two close neighborhood friends …
To really enjoyed this book
Fun book to read.
I have been looking for years to find a replacement for my all time favorite Donald E Westlake, especially the Dortmunder books…Karen Cantwell hit the spot, the unexpected twists, the absurdity of some of the situations, the characters being foiled at every turn, then trying to right the ship…If you’re into Fortmender, you will most likely …
Light read, but fun
I was expecting this to be more humourous than it turned out to be. Interesting but I can’t say the story really grabbed me so I couldn’t put it down.
Laugh out loud funny.
A cute book. A little formulaic and sometimes unrealistict, but easy to read.
Rambling, repetitive and overfilled with useless detail and backstory in the first chapters. Didn’t press on.
Good read.