Agnes Blythe and her great aunt Effie Winters haven't given up
on restoring the Stagecoach Inn to its former grandeur. Even
with Agnes' cousin Chester, it won't be a piece of cake,
especially when there's always a murder or two slowing them
down. Agnes was feeling good about rekindling her romance with
mechanic Otis Hatch until he is the prime suspect in the murder
of one of his employees and Otis appears to be dating Agnes'
nemesis Delilah Fortune, Naneda's cupcake maven. The
Stagecoach
Inn Bed and Breakfast must unofficially open its doors to four
seniors, unfortunate tourists whose coach broke down. Nicknamed
"the gaggle" by Effie, they soon also turn into amateur sleuths
to lend a hand to Agnes and her aunt in solving the town's
latest murder, er ... murders.
Maia Chance's highly descriptive prose gives BAD NEIGHBORS a
Crayola-effect: the visuals are as sharply defined as the
characters, and make for a most entertaining read indeed! It
rather surprised me that renovations are really happening, even
if they occur as a stress-reliever for Agnes; that's one thing
HGTV never told us about! As expected from this author, the
dialogues are incredibly witty, the secondary characters shine
brightly, there are startling twists and turns, and the story
is deceptively quite complex; it's so easy to simply tag along
with Agnes and her friends and forget the intricacies of the
plot. Agnes is so very easy to relate to, maybe a little too
much, and for me it constitutes a minor issue with this series
because I find Effie much more interesting. Effie is larger
than life, she's an Auntie Mame, whom I picture as a cross
between Helen Mirren and Cher sporting a grey bob. BAD
NEIGHBORS, as the previous book, is told in first person from
Agnes' point of view, and I would really like to read Effie's
point of view as well, because I can almost hear her doing
mental eye-rolls. Effie is a star, Agnes I see in a supporting
role. BAD NEIGHBORS is as fine a cozy mystery as you can hope
for, and I can't wait to see whose murder will further delay
the Inn's renovations next!
Agnes Blythe and her glamorous Aunt Effie must take a
break from restoring their inn to rake in the clues when a
local mechanic is murdered in national bestselling author
Maia Chance’s charming second Agnes & Effie
mystery.
It’s leaf-peeping season in Naneda, New
York, and Agnes Blythe has settled into helping her
eccentric Great Aunt Effie restore the Stagecoach Inn. It
seems nothing can shatter the golden idyll—or the ka-ching
of cash registers—until a mechanic at Hatch Automotive is
found bludgeoned to death with a wrench.
Sweeping
into action, Agnes and Aunt Effie are on the scene, when a
tourist-laden motor coach breaks down outside of town. The
Stagecoach Inn isn’t exactly ready for guests, but Agnes and
Effie agree to take in a group of seniors while they wait
for repairs. But then, Agnes finds herself pulled into the
investigation when she learns her new boyfriend, gorgeous
Otis Hatch, is the Naneda Police Department’s prime
suspect.
With bodies falling faster than the foliage,
Agnes must leaf through the more viable suspects and clear
Otis’s name of murder in Bad Neighbors, the charming
second Agnes and Effie mystery from national bestselling
author Maia Chance.
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