Fatal Frost by Karen MacInerney [Review]

Fatal Frost (Dewberry Farm Mysteries #2) by Karen MacInerney
Format: ebook
Source: borrowed through Kindle Unlimited
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Date read: December 21, 2022

Dewberry Farm Mysteries
1. Killer Jam
2. Fatal Frost - Paperback | Kindle
3. Deadly Brew
4. Mistletoe Murder
5. Dyeing Season
6. Wicked Harvest
6.5. Slay Bells Ring
7. Sweet Revenge
8. Peach Clobber

Karen MacInerney
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

Lucy Resnick’s nerves are as tight as a tea cozy. Her new goats, Hot Lips and Gidget, keep making a break for the town square, her truck is dying, and her boyfriend’s gorgeous ex-wife is in town for the holidays. Worse, someone’s digging holes on her land…and uprooting her peach orchard and dewberry patch in the process. Lucy needs additional holiday stress like she needs a blow to the head—which she receives one night, courtesy of the mystery digger.

When the dim-witted sheriff arrests one of Lucy’s best friends, the former reporter puts her own problems on the back burner and starts investigating. What she finds is a patchwork of clues—an injured puppy, a sapphire necklace gone missing, and a string of poison-pen letters—that draws her deep into a web of small-town secrets.

Word travels fast in Buttercup. When the killer learns Lucy’s on the trail, Lucy finds she needs more than her reporting skills to save her friend—she needs a Christmas miracle.

Thoughts on Fatal Frost: Lucy has a lot on her plate and things are only going to get hairier for her. So to speak. After all, a little case of arson, an injured puppy, a missing young woman, and one of Lucy's good friends being accused of murder do not make for a relaxing holiday.

Beyond all that, Lucy's parents have stopped by for a visit. Which doesn't sound bad, necessarily, but Lucy has a couple of mysteries to uncover and Tobias's ex-wife in town. Which isn't making her feel all that great about her relationship with him. The point is, with everything she's already dealing with (escapee goats included), she doesn't have a ton of time to spend with them.

No worries, however! Lucy is a champion at multitasking. Not only is she able to do what needs to be done to keep her friends safe, she also wrangles more than one mystery this time around.

(By the by, this sheriff is painful. I'm REALLY hoping he gets what's coming to him at some point in the future in the form of being ousted from office for being completely incompetent. Just saying.)