A shoe-in read for fans of Ellery Adams and Kate Carlisle, On
Borrowed Crime is the first in Kate Young's new Georgia-set, sweet tea
filled, Jane Doe Book Club mysteries.
The Jane Doe book club enjoys guessing whodunit, but when murder
happens in their midst, they discover solving crimes isn't fun and
games...
Lyla Moody loves her sleepy little town of Sweet Mountain, Georgia. She
likes her job as receptionist for her uncle's private investigative
firm, her fellow true crime obsessed Jane Doe members are the friends
she's always wanted, and her parents just celebrated their fiftieth
wedding anniversary. But recently, with her best friend Melanie on
vacation, and her ex-boyfriend and horrible cousin becoming an item and
moving in next door to her, her idyllic life is on the fritz. The cherry
on top of it all is finding Carol, a member of the club, dead and shoved
into a suitcase, left at Lyla's front door.
Unusual circumstances notwithstanding, with Carol's heart condition, the
coroner rules Carol's death undetermined. But when they discover the
suitcase belongs to Melanie, who had returned from her vacation the
following morning, Sweet Mountain police begin to suspect Lyla's best
friend. Determined that police are following the wrong trail, to clear
her friend's name, and to not allow Carol become one of the club's
studied cold cases, Lyla begins to seek out the real killer. That is,
until she becomes the one sought after. Now, finding the truth could
turn her into the killer's next plot twist, unless she wins the game of
cat and mouse.
