Magnolia Bluff Crime Chronicles continues in 2023 with the 10th book in the series. Author Linda Pirtle has just released the first mystery of the year for the crime series and it's a doozy!
Last year, Pirtle's entry into the series was with The Dewey Decimal Dilemma. It was a fun, cozy involving a strange mystery centered around dogs and murder. Book 10 brings us back into the world of the town librarian, Caroline McCluskey along with some of her closest friends who fashion themselves as a group of amateur private investigators.
Here is the blurb describing this fun cozy mystery:
Lately, Magnolia Bluff, a quiet little community in the Texas Hill Country near the Burnet Reservoir, has seen too many gruesome murders. In Linda Pirtle’s The Dewey Decimal Dilemma, Caroline, the town’s librarian, found the body of her friend Terresa Brown in the alley which separated their Victorian homes. Terresa was only the first to be targeted.
Six months have passed since Caroline McCluskey’s friend, neighbor, and fellow
Standard Poodle owner, Esther, disappeared while visiting the Magnolia Bluff
Public Library. Left behind were her new crimson hat and her dog named Adam.
Neither the local police nor the FBI have been able to find her. Caroline
temporarily adopts Adam. She plans on reuniting him with his owner.
In Pirtle’s The Dog Gone Diamond Dilemma, Caroline, sleuth extraordinaire, has grown weary of waiting for the
authorities to solve the disappearance of her friend Esther. She organizes a
group of friends and creates a mystery club called The Round Table. Caroline,
along with Magnolia Nadine, LouEllen Mueller, and Daphne Leigh, are determined
to find their missing friend.
Looking for clues, the women become cat burglars when they break and enter
Esther’s house. Their search is interrupted when they hear voices of two men
who have also entered the house. The words diamond stock certificates and the words she still won’t talk even though we stole her dog for her tells the members of the Round Table that Esther is
still alive.
However, where is she being held and by whom? Why would anyone think that
Esther, a retired school teacher, could own stock certificates in a diamond
mine? Daphne, owner of the Head Case Salon, gathers an important clue. Alas,
someone finds out about it, and Daphne becomes another victim. Will the Round
Table members be able to rescue Esther from her captors before they, too,
become the next victims?
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The Magnolia Bluff Crime Chronicles is a unique multi-author crime fiction series that began in 2022. The 9 books released during the first year were so well received that the authors decided to continue the series into 2023 and beyond.
The authors responsible for last year's books turned out 9 page turning mysteries that were full of murder and mayhem. Some were cozies and some a little grittier. All taking place is the same small town, centered around some of the same people and businesses, yet all uniquely different stories.
If you missed any of the books published last year, now's a great time to catch up as we enter into 2023. But that doesn't mean you can't start with Linda Pirtle's new and wonderful cozy mystery, The Dog Gone Diamond Dilemma. Wherever you begin, just be prepared for a fun ride into a town whose population continues to shrink due to its murder rate.
Catch up on the series by clicking here: First 9 MBCC Books
Video Trailer: MBCC YouTube Video
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Sounds like a great book. Thanks for highlighting it so well. I'm off to get a copy today. Thanks.
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