Reviewer: Connie Payne
Title: Candy, Corpses, and Classified Ads
Author: JL Wilson
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
ISBN: e-book (Print version available 8/08)
Release Date: February 2008
Genre/Sub-genre: Cozy/Romantic Mystery
Year/Setting: Present day - Tangle Butte MN
Overall Rating: 3.5
Sexual Content Rating: Subtle/Sensual
Language (Profanity/Slang) Content Rating: Mild
Violent Content Rating: Minimal/Moderate
JL's Website:
www.jayellwilson.com
Molly Lawson was doing fine with her life; writing mystery novels, reporting for the Tangle Butte Daily Tribune, living alone with her animals, and feeding her love for M&M’s. The one hitch in her life was the neighbor’s pet pig. He continually got loose and dug around in Molly’s yard. And boy did he dig something up this time. Molly’s ex-husband, Sam. The husband Molly thought had run off with one of the town’s, um, looser women five years earlier.
To add to Molly’s trouble and misery, JT McCord, the new police chief, is back in town. Chief and dead body, that combination isn’t conducive to avoidance, which is what Molly would rather do…avoid JT if at all possible. After all, he did break her heart over twenty years ago, something she’s never really gotten over.
However, when things start happening and the mystery around Sam’s death isn’t as open and shut as was hoped, Molly realizes that she’s going to have to come to terms with her past and help find a killer. All before she can look to the future.
Molly’s story is unassuming yet it grasps the reader’s attention and makes them care about what happens to Molly and those around her. It’s a fast read with several angles to the puzzle.
Candy, Corpses, and Classified Ads, has a proper blend of murder and mystery, hurt and healing, of love lost and found. Enjoy.
Connie
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