Review: Mystery with a ghostly touch!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 3, 2013
Acting Sweet Pepper Fire Chief Stella Griffin has a lot on her plate.  Turning the raw recruits into a respectable group of volunteer firefighters is a tough job.  In addition, she has to talk her roommate Eric Gamlyn into hiring a chimney sweep to clean the chimney of the cabin they share.  Former Fire Chief Gamlyn is a very stubborn man… I mean ghost.  He has haunted the cabin since he died 40 years ago.  Stella is his first roomie. Everyone assumed he died doing his duty.  It was a shock to find out he had been murdered.  Stella is determined to remain in Sweet Pepper, TN until she solves his murder. She also has learned, through one of the volunteers, that there has been a series of robberies in the area.  The robberies are covered up by the thief leaving a small fire. So far there has been minimal damage. The people are so concerned about the fire that they don’t realize anything has been stolen. Now Hero, the Dalmatian mascot of the Sweet Pepper Fire Brigade is missing.  Stella had better be very careful or she could end up with one hot dog.Things to ponder:  Where is the chimney sweep?  What happened to Hero? Could the firebug thief have taken Hero?I loved this novella.  It just whets your appetite to want to read more in this charming series.  This is the perfect little read to fill the void of waiting for the next JJ Cook novel. The next book in the series Playing With Fire will be out in January 2014.  I read this novella in one sitting.  I had to find out what happened to Hero.  This was a fast-paced fun read.  By the way, JJ Cook is also known as Joyce and Jim Lavene – two of my very favorite authors. So if you like your mystery with a ghostly touch, then you should read Hero’s Journey.FTC Full Disclosure - A copy of this book was sent to me by the author in hopes I would review it. However, receiving the complimentary copy did not influence my review.