Review: Antiques Slay Ride Cozy Mystery
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 22, 2013
Brandy Borne and her mother, Vivian Borne, live on the Mississippi River in Serenity, Iowa. Brandy has a blind shitzu, Sushi, who helps them sleuth. They have an antique store that's grown from a stall in an antiques mall to a colorful old house. They love flea markets, estate sales, etc. Vivian is active in community theater and tends to be rather dramatic herself!! Vivian's heard Bernie Watkins might sell his enormous Christmas antique collection, and she wants to bid for it before anyone else. So, they drive to Bernie's to visit with him, and Vivian gets to snooping in his unlocked garage where all his Yuletide goodies are stored. Sushi sniffs out his dead corpse stashed in an antique Victorian-style sleigh. Bernie has two stepchildren -- a brother and sister-- from his second marriage who stand to inherit Bernie's antiques collection. Vivian wants to make them an offer, but her nemesis, Lyle Humphrey, has beat her to it. Armed with a copy of his itemized offer to Bo-Bo and Tanya, the Borne women realize a very valuable item is missing from the list Lyle gave the step-children, and the list Vivian copied at Bernie's lawyers office. They go to visit Lyle, and once again, little blind Sushi sniffed out the murder weapon!! This book is a very short Christmas novella, but very entertaining! I look forward or reading more books in the Trash 'n' Treasures Mystery series!