Fatality at the Festival by Beth Dolgner [Review]

Fatality at the Festival (Nightmare, Arizona #8) by Beth Dolgner
Format: ebook
Source: borrowed through Kindle Unlimited
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Date read: April 18, 2025

Nightmare, Arizona
1. Homicide at the Haunted House
2. Drowning at the Diner
3. Slaying at the Saloon
4. Murder at the Motel
5. Poisoning at the Party
5.5. Headless at Halloween
6. Clawing at the Corral
7. Axing at the Antique Store
8. Fatality at the Festival - Paperback | Kindle
9. Terminated at the Trailhead
10. Body at the Bakery

Beth Dolgner
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

Crystals, corn dogs, and crime in Nightmare, Arizona

Olivia Kendrick is excited about Nightmare's annual arts and crafts festival until a vendor winds up dead inside his food truck. Locals and festival artists alike disliked the corn dog seller, but who had enough motive to murder him?

The supernatural community at Nightmare Sanctuary Haunted House must pull together to help gather clues, from a siren on a spy mission to witches with connections. Even Felipe the chupacabra is sniffing for clues!

As Olivia gets closer to the truth about the murder, she also gets a cryptic clue about the whereabouts of Damien Shackleford’s missing father, Baxter. Nightmare’s favorite amateur sleuth and her paranormal friends must put the pieces together before it’s too late…

Thoughts on Fatality at the Festival: What's a festival without a corn dog, right? Well, unless the owner of the corn dog food truck ends up face first in his batter. When something like that happens, you might want to skip the corn dogs and try other festival foods.

Unfortunately, this is the case for Olivia and crew. The unlikeable owner of (one of) the festival corn dog trucks ends up dead and Olivia can't help but look into it. He was a jerk, his death was kind of icky, and Olivia has limited time to gather clues since the festival won't last forever.

As tends to happen, there are more suspects than she can shake a stick at. Throw in a psychic reading (or two), a siren who gets to ply her wiles outside of the Sanctuary (what can I say except kids love her!), and more clues to help Olivia and Damien figure out what happened to Baxter and Olivia has A LOT on her plate.

Which, as it turns out, is just the way I like it!