Skating Under the Wire
A Mystery
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Rebecca Robbins has pulled the rink she inherited off the market. She's decided to stay in Indian Falls for good. Rebecca is certain that if she can get her maid of honor duties fulfilled and Thanksgiving dinner cooked, life will finally settle down to normal. But when Rebecca is hired to look into a string of home invasions and a dead body turns up at the bridal shower, she is forced to put aside her hopes for a quiet holiday season. With the help of her Elvis-loving grandfather and her sexy, commitment-seeking large animal vet boyfriend, Rebecca has to track down thieves that have eluded the cops for years, solve a murder, get her friend safely married, and somehow cook dinner for an ever expanding guest list without getting herself killed.
Boasting the drama of both madcap wedding hijinks and the infamous Thanksgiving dinner, a puzzling murder, and a wonderful cast, Skating Under the Wire is Joelle Charbonneau's most exciting mystery yet!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Charbonneau's fourth mystery featuring roller rink owner Rebecca Robbins (after 2012's Skating on the Edge) relies heavily on the eccentricities of her cast of characters, including Rebecca's spandex-loving grandfather and her con man photographer father, to carry the simplistic and somewhat implausible plot. Deputy Sean Holmes is willing to tolerate Rebecca's amateur sleuthing as she looks into the annual Thanksgiving break-ins in Indian Falls, Ill., because of her successful record, but her snooping quickly becomes entangled with both the investigation of the murder of beloved senior Ginny Chapman by an insulin overdose and the machinations of her friend Danielle's mother-in-law-to-be, who doesn't like Rebecca's involvement in the planning of Danielle's wedding. For all their over-the-top antics, Rebecca's friends and suspects come off as basically nice smalltown folk in a cozy that's cute rather than uproarious.
