What does the owner of a busy bed-and-breakfast do when she gets fed up with all the chaos that seems to reign at her abode? Well, if you're Judith Flynn, owner of the beautiful Hillside Manor B&B, you take a vacation for yourself! But when trouble follows you like it follows Judith -- the vacation is bound to be just as chaotic as if she had stayed at home!
Mishaps, mayhem and all-around foolishness reign in Mary Daheim's Bed and Breakfast mystery, LOCO MOTIVE. In her 25th novel in this fun-filled series, Daheim once again brings her fans a rollicking good story that will have them wondering who-dun-it at every turn.
After a particularly rough round of customers at the Hillside, which included the stuntman known as Wee Willie Weevil injuring himself by throwing himself off the roof, Judith was just exhausted. So when her cousin, Renie, invites her to come along on a cross-country train trip to Boston, Judith jumps at the chance. But to her horror, who else but Willie Weevil and his band of troublemakers are also on the train headed east. Judith valiantly tries to ignore the shenanigans, but when the train collides with a load of sugar beets in the middle of Montana, leaving them stranded, she wonders if taking a vacation was such a good idea. And when Willie Weevil turns up dead and all the attention focuses on Judith as the main suspect, she definitely knows she should have stayed at home. It's up to her and Renie to track down the real killer before their vacation is totally derailed for good.
Mary Daheim has a terrific gift for storytelling, and LOCO MOTIVE is a fine example of her prowess in weaving together a great suspenseful story that has plenty of humor, guaranteeing that the reader is going to have an enjoyable time.
From USA Today bestselling author Mary Daheim comes her latest Bed-and-Breakfast book featuring innkeeper Judith McMonigle Flynn and her irrepressible cousin Renie in a mystery that takes them on the wrong side of the tracks. . . . Loco Motive
It's autumn at Hillside Manor B&B, and with the changing leaves come some unexpected guests. There's Judith's son and daughter-in-law, with their two children in tow, a couple with an impossible (and unbelievable?) last name who show up from nowhere, and a pair of giggly young women who don't seem to know where they're going.
As Halloween draws nigh, Judith can barely cope with her gala of guests, but at least the worst guest from the first part of the week checks outβalmost permanently. Wee Willie Weevil, infamous daredevil and martial-arts movie icon, insisted on performing his dangerous stunts from Judith's roof and left the B&B via an ambulance.
Hoping to escape the domestic mayhem, Judith agrees to accompany Renie on a cross-country train trip to Boston with first-class accommodations on the Empire Builder. Judith's bubble bursts when she discovers that Wee Willie and his entourage are fellow travelers. Although confined to a wheelchair, the diminutive stunt man seems capable of derailing the cousins' vacation.
Cousin Renie does her best to ease Judith's mind until the train collides with a truckload of sugar beets. Forced to wait for a new engine in a small Montana town in the middle of nowhere, the passengers can do nothing but watch and wait. Even before the train can get back on track, the cousins discover that their sleeper attendant has gone missing. Worse yet, another passenger's final destination is the nearest morgue.
Judith and Renie have to move full speed ahead if they want to blow the whistle on the killer before death strikes again. Can the train continue its journey? Will the cousins ever get to Boston? Stay aboard!
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