Engaged in Murder

June 1, 2014

Starting out a new business (as a wedding-proposal event planner), 30-year-old Pepper Pomeroy will meet most any challenge head-on--but maybe not a dead man in the airport ladies room. Having just helped her sister and Warren, her prospective brother-in-law, into the air in a small jet, Pepper now wonders how well she knows Warren. The police certainly don't want Pepper snooping around (she is a pest), but in true amateur detective fashion she can't resist trying to solve the mystery, ostensibly because she's worried about Warren's innocence. In between juggling several new high-end clients and a staggering amount of event-planning minutiae, Pepper gets close to catching a killer. VERDICT The author of the "Baker's Treat" mysteries (Murder Gone a-Rye) launches a new cozy series set in Chicago. Her protagonist is a bit like Lucille Ball--a screwball--making Parra's mystery light and comedic. Full of clever event-planning ideas, this run has tremendous venue potential.

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