Kathy Martin's Reviews > Renewed for Murder

Amy Webber is settling into married life with dancer Richard Muir and hoping to be out of the detective business. But when her most consistent volunteer, who is also her Aunt Lydia's best friend, is accused of murder, Amy has to get involved.

Zelda seems like an unlikely murderer but circumstantial evidence and Zelda's reluctance to answer questions, leads to her arrest. Amy has to use all of her skills as a librarian to find out who murdered Claudia Everhart and clear Zelda.

Amy's research leads to a choir festival fifty years earlier. Zelda, Claudia, and some others were all participants. Their competing choirs are reprising their roles at an Arts Festival hosted by Marty Stover who is the current Arts Director at Leeland High School. Amy's husband Richard is also involved in the Arts Festival since he's judging some of the dancing.

With Zelda refusing to talk, Amy falls back on old newspaper clippings from the Library's archives, old yearbooks kept at the High School, and interviews with those who are old enough to remember to events around that long-ago choir contest. She uncovers all sorts of things from a quarterback with a peanut allergy who was dating Zelda and Claudia at the same time to a car accident that claimed the life of another of the choir members.

This was an entertaining cozy mystery. I liked Amy and Richard's relationship. I also liked the way Amy tries to keep out of danger while still helping the Sheriff's Department with their investigations.

This is the sixth in a series but stands alone quite well.