Review: The Murder Pit
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 21, 2014
When I decided to read The Murder Pit by Jeff Shelby, it was because the heroine, Daisy Savage, finds a corpse in the coal chute of her hundred-year-old home. Old houses with bodies hidden in the walls, as long as they're the fictional kind, always intrigue me. I didn't realize until I got into the book that Daisy is a homeschooling mom of four. She's not a detective, even if she did do a unit study on forensics with her kids a while back, but she's being snubbed by the members of their local homeschooling co-op because no one wants their kids in her classes. Everyone in town knows that she dated the victim before marrying her husband and most of her neighbors seem to think there was a lot more to that one date and that she must've had something to do with his presence in her house.I was glad to see that there's a second book in the series coming soon, because I can't wait to read more about Daisy and her family. The publisher provided me with an advance ARC, but I'm definitely planning to buy the next book when it comes out.