Days ands nights are never dull at Judith McMonigle Flynn’s Seattle B& B, Hillside Manor. Her guests are always a bit outre, but this time they’re way over the top.
Good-hearted Judith has donated an overnight along with dinner to the parish school’s annual auction. And wouldn’t you know the winning bidders are Norma and Wilbur Paine (who truly live up to their last name). They give the prize to their young ones who inherited all of their parents’ obnoxious qualities. Meanwhile, Judith’s private investigator husband, Joe, has news - the fellow he’s been after for insurance fraud has just been murdered and Joe is the prime suspect. (Unfortunately, it was Joe’s gun that fired the fatal shot).
What else could possibly go wrong? Well, Cousin Renie is creating havoc with the parish cookbook fund-raising committee by trying to push her recipe for Shrimp Dump on them, and Judith’s idiosyncratic mom has allowed a horse to be stabled in her tool shed apartment. Enough? Not quite. Neighbor Arlene Rankers wants to know why her grandson and some of the other school kids were taken ill after the weekly hamburger lunch.
Not to worry, just enjoy as Judith can handle all of this and it certainly is a romp to read how she does it.
- Gail Cooke
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