MURDER IN MARIETTA
Deborah Malone
Protagonist
Trixie Montgomery is a reporter for Georgia By The Way Magazine, whose editor,
Harv has assigned her to investigate mysterious, unexplainable occurrences
involving theft, smoke odor, and ghosts reported to the police from the
Marietta History Museum personnel and guests.
Trixie isn’t
real happy about being chosen to be a ghost catcher, but the fact is she needs
a paycheck and she needs her colorful dreams to alleviate, so she agrees to
spend one night in the museum with her best friend, DeeDee, and make up
something for the boss.
However, the
museum curator, Doc, finds a dead body while the women are in the building. So
the curator, Trixie and DeeDee all become suspects to the murder of Jacob, who
is the president of the board of directors/
Nana,
Trixie’s great Aunt brings her best friend, Dora to see the museum when Dora
happens to break her hip falling down and is shipped to the hospital. Nana needs intravenous southern fried greasy
chicken fixes between supporting Dora and helping Trixie and DeeDee find the
correct culprit and have them recognized as innocent.
Ms. Monroe has
done a lovely job of inserting passages of Marietta building history and
relating them to the present.
It’s a classic cozy/mystery that
leaves nothing out—murder, red herring suspects, frightening experiences that
seem to have no explanation, period balls, complete with the fun of old ladies
wrestling with hoop skirts. Sprinkled throughout the story are traditional
southern homilies such as “tick on a hound dog,” “quicker than a southern girl
could say ‘well bless her heart,’” etc.
Typically, Murder In Marietta is a
squeaky clean novel of a romp in old parts of Georgia. If you want a cozy with
a mystery, clean fun, outrageous characters with a little history thrown in, this
is it.
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