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Logan & Cafferty #5
Murder in RV Paradise
Dana Logan and Sarah Cafferty decide to vacation at a Texas RV resort in their motorhome where they discover the body of an attractive woman in one of the small lakes. They soon learn the woman is disliked by other resort residents and that eveyone is a likely suspect. Dana and Sarah are prime suspects themselves and conduct an investigation of their own, only to discover that the killer is planting clues to incriminate them. Dana is forced to call on her amorous friend, Sheriff Walter Grayson, to come to their rescue, but Grayson becomes a victim and they rush to his hospital bed. Four other women murder victims are discovered before the mystery is solved.
284 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 13, 2013
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Jean Henry Mead
23 books9 followersAward-winning photojournalist and novelist. Published domestically as well as abroad. Novelist with 22 published books, both fiction and nonficition, including the Logan and Cafferty series, Hamilton Kids' mysteries and Wyoming historical novels. Former news, magazine and small press editor. Latest book, Mystery of the Black Cross.
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March 4, 2015
Easy-to-read Cozy with fun-to-follow characters all the way. Best of all, the author delivers a good plot featuring her senior lady sleuths without either of them falling into silliness for the sake of impromptu humor (my main complaint on other senior cozies I've read). The mystery of who committed the murder kept me unsure long enough to keep reading even when I thought I knew the answer. Delightful read!
March 19, 2021
So many suspects... so much confusion
Given Jean Henry Mead's reputation, I dove into this Logan & Cafferty mystery anticipating a great adventure. Of all her titles, this one attracted me the most for two reasons: its availability in e-book format and RV theme.
For such an accomplished author, the opening was surprisingly confusing, though it could be my own need to feel immediately centered in a novel: whose story is it? In "Murder in RV Paradise," Mead assumes we know Sarah and Dana are Logan and Cafferty (though which is which I'm still not clear about). So when these two women discover a body floating in a pond in the RV park where they're staying, I don't start out on the sure footing I would if I'd known these two were the main characters.
Mead also fails to fill readers in on the relationship between the two women (sisters? lovers? traveling companions? mother and daughter?) early enough to keep me from being distracted by trying to sort it out, which also kept me from plunging head-first into the story.
My husband and I have been full-time RVers for nearly twelve years, and as a writer of RV-related mysteries myself, I'm always hunting down and reading books like "Murder in RV Paradise." The strongest aspect of the book is the RVing element. Having stayed in various RV parks with a mixture of visitors and year-round (or sometimes long-term or seasonal) residents, I can vouch for how well Mead has recreated this odd dynamic. The various RVers Dana and Sarah meet are well-drawn, and I'm sure I've met some of them on our own RV adventures.
While I can appreciate the desire to create a complex plot and a bevy of likely suspects, Mead seems to be in overdrive here. There are so many couples in such tangled relationships, all of course with ample reason to murder the victim, that it became more confusing than entertaining for me. I struggled to keep the management couple separate from the real estate couple from the couple down the street from the.... you get the picture. Perhaps a few more distinguishing features than those we got might have helped out. Despite all of that, I was able to spot the culprit pretty quickly, which is always frustrating with a mystery.
Those problems, along with some scattered proofreading errors, kept the book from completely creating the suspension of disbelief needed for me to forget I was reading, to drop myself into the narrative as if I were beside the two women, trying to help them solve the crime.
Given Jean Henry Mead's reputation, I dove into this Logan & Cafferty mystery anticipating a great adventure. Of all her titles, this one attracted me the most for two reasons: its availability in e-book format and RV theme.
For such an accomplished author, the opening was surprisingly confusing, though it could be my own need to feel immediately centered in a novel: whose story is it? In "Murder in RV Paradise," Mead assumes we know Sarah and Dana are Logan and Cafferty (though which is which I'm still not clear about). So when these two women discover a body floating in a pond in the RV park where they're staying, I don't start out on the sure footing I would if I'd known these two were the main characters.
Mead also fails to fill readers in on the relationship between the two women (sisters? lovers? traveling companions? mother and daughter?) early enough to keep me from being distracted by trying to sort it out, which also kept me from plunging head-first into the story.
My husband and I have been full-time RVers for nearly twelve years, and as a writer of RV-related mysteries myself, I'm always hunting down and reading books like "Murder in RV Paradise." The strongest aspect of the book is the RVing element. Having stayed in various RV parks with a mixture of visitors and year-round (or sometimes long-term or seasonal) residents, I can vouch for how well Mead has recreated this odd dynamic. The various RVers Dana and Sarah meet are well-drawn, and I'm sure I've met some of them on our own RV adventures.
While I can appreciate the desire to create a complex plot and a bevy of likely suspects, Mead seems to be in overdrive here. There are so many couples in such tangled relationships, all of course with ample reason to murder the victim, that it became more confusing than entertaining for me. I struggled to keep the management couple separate from the real estate couple from the couple down the street from the.... you get the picture. Perhaps a few more distinguishing features than those we got might have helped out. Despite all of that, I was able to spot the culprit pretty quickly, which is always frustrating with a mystery.
Those problems, along with some scattered proofreading errors, kept the book from completely creating the suspension of disbelief needed for me to forget I was reading, to drop myself into the narrative as if I were beside the two women, trying to help them solve the crime.
December 19, 2013
"A Murder in Paradise" by Jean Henry Mead is the fifth novel in her Logan & Cafferty mystery series.
Dana Logan and Sarah Cafferty refer to themselves as "magnets for murder." It seems that wherever they go, they somehow become involved in solving a murder. This time, they're vacationing at a Texas RV resort when they find a woman's body in one of the small lakes on the property and, in spite of putting themselves in serious jeopardy, they won't rest until they figure out who the killer is. With a long list of potential suspects, intriguing plot twists and a dash of romance, I highly recommend this book.
Dana Logan and Sarah Cafferty refer to themselves as "magnets for murder." It seems that wherever they go, they somehow become involved in solving a murder. This time, they're vacationing at a Texas RV resort when they find a woman's body in one of the small lakes on the property and, in spite of putting themselves in serious jeopardy, they won't rest until they figure out who the killer is. With a long list of potential suspects, intriguing plot twists and a dash of romance, I highly recommend this book.
February 26, 2015
“Murder in RV Paradise” by Jean Henry Mead kept me guessing until the end.
Imagine taking a trip to an RV Park and the first thing to happen is finding a dead body. Being in an RV park gives Dana and Sarah plenty of suspects to choose from, but why does it seem someone is trying to implicate them? After all, they’d just arrived.
Plenty of twists and turns in this one and it’ll keep you on your toes while you try to figure out who’s behind it all.
Watch for some romance, too, including a surprise or two.
Another great addition to the Logan & Cafferty Mystery series.
Imagine taking a trip to an RV Park and the first thing to happen is finding a dead body. Being in an RV park gives Dana and Sarah plenty of suspects to choose from, but why does it seem someone is trying to implicate them? After all, they’d just arrived.
Plenty of twists and turns in this one and it’ll keep you on your toes while you try to figure out who’s behind it all.
Watch for some romance, too, including a surprise or two.
Another great addition to the Logan & Cafferty Mystery series.
August 13, 2014
Within the first few chapters the characters describe every little detail and then while talking to each other tell each other a lot of background information that, if they were friends for so long, they should know already and not have had to tell each other these thing.
Because of the dialogue, I did not finish the book.
Because of the dialogue, I did not finish the book.
August 4, 2016
This was a huge disappointment. I love mysteries and I love camping, but the two main characters are so much alike and the point of view switches so often it was very difficult keep things straight. There is a lot of repetition of phrases as well as repeated speculations that don't seem to go anywhere.
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