Gone with the Win

June 10, 2013
Early in Daheim’s sprightly 28th cozy featuring Seattle B and B innkeeper Judith McMonigle Flynn (after 2012’s The Wurst Is Yet to Come), an old friend of Judith’s, Ruby Tooms, arrives at Hillside Manor. Ruby wants Judith’s husband, retired cop Joe Flynn, to help find the person who murdered her mother, Opal, years earlier, before DNA testing. Judith, whose admirers created a Web site celebrating her detective adventures, has vowed to stay away from criminal investigations in order to concentrate on her family and her business, but she soon becomes involved in the search for Opal’s killer. As usual, Judith’s best friend, Renie Jones, lends a hand. Series fans will relish the author’s trademark humor (e.g., “I hate it when people get mixed up and think the acronym for Female Amateur Sleuth Tracking Offenders isn’t FASTO, but FATSO”). Agent: Maureen Moran, Maureen Moran Agency.