Maple Mayhem by Jessie Crockett

Sugar Grove Mysteries 2 Maple Mayhem by Jessie Crockett

Dani Greene is back for another mystery together with her cast of zany neighbors and crazy family members (or is that zany family members and crazy neighbors). This time, she’s trying to set up a syrup cooperative so that she and her syrup producing neighbors can buy their supplies at a discount, but someone is out to stop them.

 

For the first half of the novel, the villain restricts him or herself to simple vandalism and warnings, but things take a turn for the far more serious when Dani’s number one suspect is murdered. Dani, naturally, is one of the acting police chief’s top suspects, but the reader never has to take this too seriously. After all, this is the same ex-boyfriend who ticketed Dani for broken taillights when he discovered her car with the tires slashed, the paint keyed, the lights broken out, and a warning to stop the cooperative scratched into the paint.

 

Overall, this is another solid mystery in the delightful New England setting of Sugar Grove.