Croaked: an Edgar Rowdey Cape Cod Mystery: 1 (Edgar Rowdey Cape Cod Mysteries)

Everything I want in a mystery...a plot that keeps you turning pages terrific dialog humor great local color ...oh yes and murders too. I enjoyed every minute of it.Cape Cod! To Lydia Vivaldi fleeing a meltdown in Boston the quaint seaside village of Quansett looks like sanctuary. Then she learns that her one friend here DeAnne died tragically last month. How could an ex-Fix-It Chick fall off a ladder at a film shoot? Over lunch at Leos Back End Lydias shocked questions are brushed off by the flirtatious filmmaker.She jumps on Leos offer of a summer job--and soon realizes the locals know more than theyre telling. Is it true the Back Ends Wampanoag dessert chef had a fling with DeAnne? Leos head cook claims that wasnt the dead girls only romance or her only secret. But the police have closed the case and DeAnnes parents dont want anyone tarnishing their daughters memory.Only Edgar Rowdey reclusive artist-author of creepy little storybooks shares Lydias doubts about the accident. As she gets to know her new neighbors--a hippie bookstore clerk an ex-police photographer a pair of Broadway-musical composers a retired football star--Lydia gathers rumors and recollections like seashells. But while she and Edgar sort through her collection their #1 suspect is found drowned in Leos frog pond. Another accident or another murder? Can this unlikely pair of sleuths find out WTF is happening before it happens again?