"Where do we hide the body?"
This is the startling question that Jeff Cody and his wife, Lynda, hear
during a wedding reception on the first night of the QueenCon mystery
conference in Cincinnati. Not only are the whispered words unnerving,
there is no one nearby to have spoken them.
Jeff's brother-in-law, mystery writer and amateur sleuth Sebastian
McCabe, discounts the puzzle with what seems to be a logical and
reassuring explanation. But murder does come to QueenCon - and to a
victim who seems to make no sense.
Mac's usual freewheeling style of mystery-solving runs into a roadblock
in the form of a homicide captain who has been his enemy since the
seventh grade. So Jeff and Lynda wind up doing his legwork, and what
they had expected to be a fun weekend is harder than any day at the
office.
Queen City Corpse shines with humor, bright writing, and memorable
characterization, as well as the solid storytelling that caused
best-selling novelist Bonnie MacBird to call Dan Andriacco "a master of
mystery plotting."