Say No Moor

November 1, 2017
Modern-day murder interrupts a tour of Old World sites.Emily Andrew Miceli and her husband, Etienne, own a travel agency that specializes in tours for senior citizens--often the same group from their hometown of Windsor City, Iowa. Etienne is otherwise occupied, so Emily, who's had the bright idea of including travel bloggers on the trip to boost Destinations Travel's business, is wrangling a contentious bunch with just one helper. They're the first guests at the Stand and Deliver Inn, which perches precariously near a cliff overlooking the ocean. The owner, Enyon Gladwish, has provided every comfort. His partner, Lance, a product of both the French Culinary Institute and Jersey City, is a talented chef with an unfortunate attitude. When he's found dead at the bottom of the inn's basement steps, the police determine that it was no accident. Already handling a flooded room, a burgeoning battle between two bloggers obsessed with Jane Austen, and now the lack of a chef, Emily's dismayed to learn that Enyon, also a culinary graduate, has come down with a migraine. The most contrary of the seniors vanishes, valuables are stolen from the guests, and Constable Tredinnick adds the entire group to his suspect list. The intrepid bunch carry on with visits to local attractions while Emily, no stranger to murder (From Bad to Wurst, 2015, etc.), pokes around in hopes of salvaging the trip from hell.Older readers may take exception to their characterization as cellphone-obsessed loonies. Among the lame jokes and over-the-top characters, though, there's a pretty decent mystery.

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December 1, 2017

Travel agency owner Emily Miceli decides to expand the clientele of her escorted tours beyond Iowa seniors by offering discounts to bloggers in return for promoting her new trip to Cornwall, England. Shortly after the tour's arrival at a Cornish inn, one of the hosts dies and another is detained on suspicion of murdering his partner. Adding to Emily's worries about bad publicity, one of her tour members goes missing and another one is murdered. Hunter does a fine job of capturing the romantic Cornwall setting, paying special attention to the area's smuggling history, food, and landscape. Laced with whimsical humor owing to the ever-present Iowa seniors who serve as a droll Greek chorus, this is a treat for cozy fans with the traveling bug. VERDICT While it can be read a stand-alone, this 11th title in Hunter's series (after From Bad to Wurst) is apt to encourage readers new to the series to pick up the earlier works. A solid pick for fans of Emily Toll, Taffy Cannon, and Hy Conrad.--LH

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