Feisty senior sleuth Isabel Puddles--Lake Michigan's answer to Miss
Marple--strikes out for new territory across the pond in the newest cozy
mystery by veteran TV writer M.V. Byrne. Full of charm, rich
storytelling, and mellow humor, the Mitten State Mysteries are sure to
delight fans of Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegone tales, Jessica Fletcher
and Lee Hollis's Poppy Harmon series.
Isabel has crafted a life she loves in her Lake Michigan hometown, but
she's eager to use her golden years to make up for missed opportunities.
That's why she's traveling to England for the first time to visit her
pen pal, Teddy Mansfield, an acclaimed mystery writer who lives just
outside the village of Mousehole, Cornwall. First impressions are
charming--Isabel is staying in the guest cottage on the grounds of
Teddy's beautiful country manor, and Mousehole is home to an assortment
of characters as colorful as any in Teddy's books.
Teddy's housekeeper, Tuppence, is a dab hand at baking--her scones are
regularly runner-up in the village bake-off, and this year she's
determined to scoop top prize. But it appears that other, possibly more
dangerous rivalries have been brewing in Mousehole. And when a resident
is found pushing up daisies in a flowerbed, Isabel is drawn into an
investigation that will require all of her newly honed skills to
solve--and to survive . . .
