Murder of a Small Town Honey is the first book in the Scumble River mystery series by Denise Swanson. School psychologist, Skye Denison, is not too happy to be back in her small home town in Illinois. She had thought she had moved on to broader horizons. But a job loss and personal setbacks have her back at home starting a new job, and getting reacquainted with the busybodies and her relatives. She even gets suckered into judging the local Chokeberry Days jelly contest.
But the festival is suddenly ended, when she finds a dead body of a TV celebrity who happens to have her same small town past, and who turns out to have dated her older brother and several others... well, it might need some looking in to. And when her brother is arrested for the murder, she has to take a hand in getting the police on the right track.
Moving back to your hometown is tough, when you really did not want to come back. Skye mixes those feelings with trying to get her life restarted again. And how come she keeps finding every one's home ransacked? And what does her brother have to do with all of this anyway?
A clever story of reinvention, confronting your past, and small town life. And murder thrown in. A good read. Looking forward to the next one.
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