Cackleberry Club co-owner Suzanne Dietz is doing her good
deed (and making a quick escape) when she realizes local
funeral director Ozzie Driesden failed to return for his
cherry pie from the local bake sale. Unfortunately, Ozzie
won't be eating any more cherry pie, and will need the
services of a funeral director. Before Suzanne can truly
process the fact that Ozzie is lying on his own embalming
table, someone sneaks up and chloroforms her. When she's
found by a couple of members of the police department, the
initial theory is suicide, until Ozzie's assistant is found
hanging from a tree.
Elmwood Park has a murderer running around, and having been
a sort-of-victim of the killer, Suzanne decides to do some
investigating of her own. There's no shortage of suspects,
and as Suzanne delves deeper into the case, she manages to
annoy the killer and make herself a target. It will take
every bit of skill each Cackleberry Club friend possesses
to discover the identity of the culprit before the killer
closes them down, permanently.
EGGS BENEDICT ARNOLD by Laura Childs is the second
in the Cackleberry Club mystery series. While the mystery
is sound and moves along at an engaging pace, it's the
relationship between the three friends I really enjoyed.
Suzanne, Petra and Toni rely on their long-standing
friendship to get them through the tough times and are
there for one another when things get tough. This is a
series I look forward to reading more of!
When Cackleberry Clubber Suzanne delivers a pie to funeral
director Ozzie Driesden, she discovers him not working
at the embalming table but lying on the
embalming table. She barely has time to recognize his corpse
before she's drugged with chloroform. With more suspects
than breakfast specials, the Cackleberry Club scrambles to
crack the case before one of their own ends up six feet
under.
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