A Sticky Situation by Jessie Crockett

Sugar Grove Mysteries 3 A Sticky Situation by Jessie Crockett

Dani Greene is back for a third mystery set in Maple Syrup country. With her is the whole zany cast of the town—which is a strong benefit to readers of the series because many of these residents have been suspects in earlier novels and they will feel familiar to the reader.

 

This time the crime is thirty years old when the bones of a man who for three decades was suspected of stealing the profits of a local festival are discovered during the renovations of a town building. It turns out that this man, “Spooner”, was a lady’s man loved by women even as they fought over him and hated by their fathers and husbands. (Who would have thought that the ability to make music from two spoons would make a man sexy?) Just about everyone had something to say about Spooner and something to coverup from the past.

 

To complicate matters further, Dani’s annoying aunt and cousin have returned to Sugar Grove to live and they are so bad that Dani and her (up until now) rotten sister, Celedon, become partners in trying to keep away from them. The only thing “wrong” in this book is that Dani’s reason for poking her nose into the police investigation is very weak, but then, being nosy is often the excuse to investigate in this sort of novel. Overall, this was another enjoyable book in the series and I’m very sorry that Jessie Crockett apparently stopped writing them after this book.