Today's featured book is Too Dead to Dance- A Jennifer Penny Mystery written by Diane Morlan
This is the ebook version which was gifted to me this Christmas by one Addison (thanks again Addy)
The book is set in a small town in Minnesota during a Polka festival and of course there is a murder and when her best friend is suspected in comes Jennifer Penny to investigate and attempt to clear of friend of wrong during much like Jessica Fletcher would do in Murder She Wrote. Eventually there is another murder which of course happens to be the girlfriend of her she to be ex husband(Minor Spoiler- who is also the ex wife of the first victim) who her best friend is also suspected of killing.
This book is a decent entry in the Cozy sub genre of mysteries. It kept me engaged and although the author could have easily cut out a few minor characters who didn't add to the plot and took out the whole plot of finding the Coca-Cola stein that bogged down the book ever so slightly.
This is the first book in the series apparently and thus far there only appears to be one other book in the series Shake Down Dead which I will be reading in the near future, I hope that Miss Morlan writes another book in the series as I could see this becoming a series that I enjoyed much like I enjoyed reading The Cat Who series by Lillian Jackson Braun.
Over all I give Too Dead to Dance the Spiffy seal of approval and 3.85 stars out of five..
Until next time spiffy people
Peace
Love
and a bowl of Apple Jacks
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