A Field Guide to Homicide

Lynn Cahoon’s A Field Guide to Homicide

Cat Latimer is getting ready to host

a writer’s retreat at her B&B located

in Aspen Hills Warm Springs Resort

in Colorado.

This retreat tends to be different right

from the beginning. The retreat consists

of two married couples plus a single

college student.

Cat’s boyfriend Seth has his mind on

his army platoon reunion plus setting up

a hike with a field guide he wrote to use

with the retreat group. He doesn’t want

to talk about his time in Germany.

Then on the hike the retreaters lead by

Seth discover the body of a goldminer.

Surprise....this is a former member of his

platoon. This man was supposed to be

dead for over ten years killed overseas

so how can this goldminer be dead again?

Uncle Pete is in charge of the investigation.

This puts a dent in spending time with his

woman friend, Shirley. Shirley is retired

law enforcement from Alaska. She was a

retreat alumnus from a former retreat.

Meantime the cook at the B&B, Shauna

is down about what she thought was to

be a reunion with her brother. Her brother

just wanted her to invest the money she

inherited. What will she do? Shauna also

has a beta reader for the cookbook she

is writing. She is keeping the beta reader

a secret.

I enjoyed the subplots within the main

complex murder mystery plot. This kept

my attention from wandering as the

action was fast paced from the first

word until the ending.

I thought all the characters were well

written, cleverly crafted, well defined

and interesting. I felt the relationship of

the characters between with each other

as tastefully written.

This is book # 6 in the Cat Latimer Mystery

series. It can be read as a stand alone

I volunteered to read A Field Guide to

Homicide. Thanks to Kensington Publishing

via Net Gallery for the opportunity.

My opinion is voluntary and my own.