The Puzzle Lady just can’t stay out of trouble. When the late Chester T. Markowitz, a man she never met, leaves $10,000 to his beloved wife, Cora Felton, the Puzzle Lady can’t help cashing the check. Quicker than you can say legal proceedings, Cora’s least favorite ex-husband, Melvin, shows up in Bakerhaven with an attorney and a young bimbo, demanding that her alimony be terminated on the … grounds she remarried.
When a key witness in the alimony hearing gets murdered, a KenKen puzzle is left at the scene of the crime. Is someone trying to tell Cora something? Before she can find out, she runs into more murders, more puzzles (both KenKen and crossword) and a murder weapon that seems to point to Melvin as the killer At least it might have, if Cora hadn’t suppressed it.
Does the Puzzle Lady still have feelings for the scoundrel she once married? Don’t ask. She might kill you
The twelfth in the Puzzle Lady series, The KenKen Killings is sure to please fans, and make some new ones.
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Cora’s Least Favorite Ex-Husband Comes to Town to Cause Trouble
For someone who does very few puzzles, I sure am addicted to the Puzzle Lady mysteries. This series focuses on Cora Felton, the public face of her niece Sherry’s cross word puzzle column. The KenKen Killings is number twelve in the series and even introduces a new type of …