No Picnic

Ginny Dove, a military widow, runs the Paisley Apron Diner in the small town of Sweet Springs, Virginia, located amid the picturesque Blue Ridge Mountains. She's drawn into the homicide investigation when Felix Quackenbush, a retired widower and world traveler, is found murdered. Along with her patient mother Marge and her irrepressible Aunt Cricket, Ginny sets out to learn what happened to Mr. Q. Acting Sheriff Roosevelt Baker has learned to depend on Ginny's sleuthing smarts and practical ideas to ferret out the right clues leading them to identify three murder suspects. When not operating the town diner and playing amateur sleuth, Ginny raises her rambunctious seven-year-old son Boone and continues her promising romance with Roosevelt. Mystery fans of Nevada Barr as well as Jim and Joyce Laverne will enjoy the humor, setting, and compassion found in the Ginny Dove Cozy Mystery Series.