Perfect for fans of Ellery Adams and Kate Carlisle, the members of the
Jane Doe Book Club are on the case as Kate Young's peachy-keen
Georgia-set mystery series comes back for seconds.
What better time than Halloween to dig into a bracing discussion of a
diabolical murder mystery? And what better choice for the Jane Doe Book
Club than Agatha Christie's Crooked House? Lyla Moody and her friends
are soon embroiled in debate over whether the heroine's actions are
particularly believable. But not long after the meeting, sleepy Sweet
Mountain, Georgia, is rocked by a murder that uncannily echoes the novel
in question.
When Lyla and her grandmother arrive at the charity event that Lyla's
mother is hosting, they barely have time to hang up their fall jackets
before they stumble upon a body in the library. Leonard Richardson, it
seems, was robbed and then hit over the head with a brass
candlestick--which throws suspicion on Harper Richardson, his young
widow and a friend of the Jane Does.
Lyla and the rest of the Jane Does pool their prodigious intellects to
clear Harper's name. Peculiarly, all of the clues seem to have been
lifted directly from the plot of Crooked House. But as Lyla probes the
pages of Christie's classic whodunnit for hints on catching the killer,
she uncovers secrets from her mother's past--secrets that suggest that
Lyla's own house may be crooked as well.
