The Grub-and-Stakers Move a Mountain

Grub-and-Stakers Series, Book 1

By: Charlotte MacLeod

Narrated by: Lory Reyes

A small-town gardening - and archery - club must solve a murder case and save their town from developers in the first cozy mystery featuring Dittany Henbit.

Anyone growing up in Lobelia Falls is taught to learn the elegant, ancient, and occasionally deadly art of shooting with a bow and arrow. Practicing the craft, freelance secretary Dittany Henbit is strolling through the woods with her bow at her side when she meets a surveyor making surveys where he shouldn't. Dittany is giving him what-for when an arrow goes whizzing above her head. It is sharp enough to kill, and was not fired by accident, but Dittany wasn't the target. She and the surveyor find Mr. Architrave, the head of the water department, not far away - lying dead beneath the trees that he loved so much. Progress is coming to Lobelia Falls, and one resident will do anything to stop it. But in a town where every child can shoot, how can Dittany discover who drew the killer bow?

©1981 Alisa Craig (P)2021 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Good

Standard charlotte McLeod good story and background your review requirements are cumbersome and don’t add to the reading experience

fun mystery

This is kind of a retro cozy. Feels like it was written in the 1970s and since that's my childhood era, I really enjoyed it.

Clever cozy

Everything a cosy should be - good puzzle, wonderful characters and setting. I highly recommend this story.

A fun beginning

I really like the Canadian crew we get to know here. A fun story with some unexpected twists and turns.

Narrator tanked the book

I really can’t give a review of the book because the narrator was so wrong for this type of script.
This book requires someone with a southern drawl & can enunciate correctly for this style of writing.
The narrator may be fantastic for another type of book - when she wasn’t reading in character she performed well.

I could not get past the 2nd chapter.