But the action in Goose in a Pond occasionally moves at a snail's pace compared to the first three books of the series.
Benni is the curator of the local museum.
In the midst of putting on a large storytelling event in her community, she stumbles on the body of Nora Cooper, the local librarian and Story Teller. The victim was a resentful blackmailer, who seems to have dug up the dirty laundry on everybody in town. If the author's goal is to completely confuse the reader as to a possible motive for murder, then she succeeds. None of the stories are interconnected and sometimes it seems to be more of a soap opera than a mystery. Benni is the newlywed bride of the Chief of Police and step-mother to a son close to her own age.