Jane M. reviewed on 7/27/2013 + 65 more book reviews

If you don't require your cozy murder mysteries to take place in England ... and you're of the temperament to overlook that this book was written before cell phones and DNA tests ... you'll probably enjoy this novel. It's well-plotted, well-paced, the characters are deftly described, and the suspects are plentiful.

The no-nonsense, thoughtful, would-be detective is a middle-aged woman who returns to her native Iowa to decide how to dispose of her family's lake-front estate. There, she renews old acquaintances, makes some new ones, and finds herself in the middle of the first-ever triple homicide to occur in a class-conscious, slowly modernizing, Midwest burg, where an adult-ed cooking class is just the thing to attract the pillars of the community in the early 1980s.

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