Award-Winning Blogger Dru Ann Love weighs in on Snowed Under
This first appeared June 1 on www.drusbookmusings.com
Dru’s blog has won two Anthony awards and the coveted Raven bestowed by Mystery Writers of America
My Musing ~ Snowed Under by Mary Feliz
Jun 1, 2020
Snowed Under by Mary Feliz is the sixth book in the “Maggie McDonald” cozy mystery series. Publisher: Kensington Books, coming June 9, 2020.
When professional organizer Maggie McDonald finds a body in a snowdrift outside her friend’s ski cabin, she must plow through the clues to find a cold-blooded killer . . .
Lake Tahoe in February is beautiful, but Maggie can’t see a thing as she drives through a blinding blizzard with her friend Tess Olmos and their dogs, golden retriever Belle and German shepherd Mozart. Maggie has offered her professional decluttering skills to help Tess tidy up her late husband’s cabin in preparation to sell. She also plans to get in some skiing when her husband Max and their boys join them later in the week.
What she doesn’t plan on is finding a boot in a snowdrift attached to a corpse. The frozen stiff turns out to be Tess’s neighbor, Dev Bailey, who disappeared two months ago. His widow Leslie expresses grief, but Maggie can’t help but wonder if it’s a snow job. As more suspects start to pile up, things go downhill fast, and Maggie must keep her cool to solve the murder before the killer takes a powder . . .
Dru’s Musing:
They say never leave home without it and that phrase holds true as yet once again, Maggie stumbles on a dead body and of course knowing Maggie, she just has to investigate. I really do enjoy these adventures with Maggie and her friends and the author does a great job in giving us fresh new stories to read. This is a tightly woven, multi-arc story-line that encompasses all aspects of crime fiction in this well-written and executed drama. The mystery was expertly done keeping my interest high as I had to know who did what to whom. The staging with the weather as the backdrop added to the intensity of finding a motive, suspects and clues. Throughout every scene the author led me one way or the other to differing points that enhanced how well this tale was being told. As with the previous books in the series, this has a strong character base with dialogue to match.
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FTC Full Disclosure – I received an Advanced Reader Copy (ARC) from the publisher.