Review: A Nice Cozy Mystery
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 13, 2012
"My Favorite Corpse" by Kathy Carmichael is a great "cozy" murder mystery, complete with mysterious strangers, disappearing corpses, incompetent local police, and a blossoming love story in the background. It is one of the "Skullduggery Inn Short Stories", which takes place at the Bed & Breakfast owned and operated by Ashley and her younger sister, Kiki. The Inn is themed around various favorite mystery books which Ashley has tried to reproduce in each room. She also hosts weekend mystery events in which the guests are the participants.Unfortunately for Ashley, the corpse she finds on the beach is not part of a pretend-mystery. It is a real, genuine, actually dead person. A corpse. On her beach. Just when she's expecting her weekend guests to begin arriving. She confides in her sister, then calls in the police. Only there's a slight problem: the "corpse" is now a piece of driftwood. The policeman leaves. Ashley sees a man on a bench, and goes over to ask if he saw anything. But this man won't be seeing anything ever again; he's her missing corpse!How did he get to the bench? Will he still be there if she calls the police again? Just what is going on, anyway?This story is not at all "scary" or graphic or gross or disgusting. It IS fun. Personally, I plan to look up more of the "Skullduggery Inn" stories! This one was good entertainment; I expect the others will be, too.