Booklist Reviews
While their husbands go on a fishing trip, cousins Judith and Renie vacation in spectacular Banff, Alberta. Amateur sleuth Judith's curiosity soon leads the cousins to look into the murder of the elderly patriarch of a Nebraska farm family staying at the same inn. The Stokes family is in Canada to honor the final wish of the very ill "Codger" Stokes, who wants his body to be floated on a bier down a nearby river. Unfortunately, he is killed before he can die of natural causes, and his body disappears, along with the bier. The incredibly quirky Stokes family, their saner Iowa relatives, and a missing maid obfuscate the cousins' investigation, but, with the help of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Judith perseveres. While it is difficult to believe that the RCMP would share as much information with tourists as they do here, Judith and the prickly Renie are both fully fleshed characters and will hold the interest of longtime readers of Daheim's series, now in its thirty-first installment. Copyright 2019 Booklist Reviews.
Library Journal Reviews
Just transferred to a new precinct in the Nihonbashi area of Tokyo, Det. Kyochiro Kaga of the Tokyo Police Department is assigned to a team investigating the murder of a woman who seems to have enemies everywhere. From Japan's best-selling novelist, an Edgar finalist.
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A surprise trip to the Canadian Rockies, sprung on her by husband Joe, is just what busy innkeeper Judith McMonigle Flynn needs. Off they go, only to find that the guests where they are staying are planning a final good-bye to a relative who's still alive. Next in the
Library Journal Reviews
Judith McMonigle Flynn is ready for a vacation away from her popular bed-and-breakfast. But she and cousin Renie never should have let their husbands plan the trip to Banff in the Canadian Rockies. While she and Renie imagined a luxurious stay, they end up in a cheap motel and the men go off on an extended fishing trip. What does Judith do to entertain herself? Of course, she checks out an unusual gathering where the Stokes family from Nebraska has a bier ready to send down the river when the family elder, Codger, dies. According to the family, Codger is ready to go anytime. But when a body is found with knife wounds, it disappears before the Mounties can investigate. Unfortunately for Sergeant Brewster, RCMP, Judith is already on the case, and she's been labeled a FASTO, a female amateur sleuth tracking offenders. The fast-paced mystery supplies humorous dialog between Renie and Judith, and multiple opportunities for disappearances of corpses and suspects.
PW Annex Reviews
In Daheim's highly implausible 31st Bed-and-Breakfast mystery (after 2016's