Octogenarian, Myrtle Clover fills her yard with her favorite garden gnomes as a sign of her displeasure with her across the street neighbor, Red, who is also her son and their small North Carolina's town police chief. This time Myrtle finds a body in her own yard, and later another one, so Red can't really keep her out of the investigation. Myrtle's relationship with her neighbor Erma and her dislike of and frustration with Myrtle always adds to spice to a Myrtle Clover book. She is feisty and doesn't let her age of in the eighties get in her way and in fact at times uses it to her advantage by actually pretending that she is more frail than she is. Myrtle can't cook and the fact that everyone in Bradley knows that always makes me laugh.īehind all the laughter we have a really clever sleuth. Myrtle's relationship with her friend Miles - Miles recognizes her clever ability to put the pieces together, he's sidekick but he also finds Myrtle to be annoying at times. Red's objections to Myrtle's sleuthing and her responding with the number of gnomes in her yard just to get to him The humor in this book is a bit more subtle than in the first in the series but there are certain things I look forward to: It's not that the books are repetitive but I've come to look forward to the same things I find in each book. After reading five of the Myrtle Clover mysteries it is hard to review each new one.
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