Tippy Toe Murder

Lucy Stone

By: Leslie Meier

Narrated by: Karen White

With three kids underfoot, a fourth on the way, and an oppressive heat wave bearing down, homemaker Lucy Stone is hardly enjoying an idyllic summer. But her preoccupation with swelling ankles, Bavarian cream doughnuts, and sewing sequins on ballet-recital tutus gives way to dread when she learns her waistline isn’t the only thing that’s recently vanished.

The strange disappearance of a retired dance instructor has the tiny coastal town of Tinker’s Cove, Maine, in a tizzy - which turns into terror when a notoriously cantankerous shopkeeper is slain right on Main Street. Now Lucy’s up to her bulging belly in suspects and red herrings. Eluded by a cold-blooded killer, with her due date looming and the temperature soaring, she figures something has to break soon. With any luck, it won’t be her water....

©2014 Leslie Meier (P)2021 Dreamscape Media, LLC

very cute story

gets a bit intense towards the end, but all ends up well with the killer confessing and the bad guys going to jail.
just like I like it.

4 and a half

Tippy Toe Murder is pretty good but not the best in the series. I enjoyed it anyway.

These earlier books are better

I absolutely loved this story as there’s no particularly left-leaning nonsense in these earlier books. I love listening to how devoted Lucy is to her family and the cozy town of Tinker Cove.

Not very cozy

This book is just awful. I thought it would get better than the first one, but it did not. The main characters just whiny and it’s not very cozy. I understand that the author probably did not go into this as it being a cozy mystery, especially when she wrote it in 1994, but Amazon needs to figure out that it’s not a cozy. Cozy mysteries, have nothing graphic in them.