Weapon in the Watermelon

Lovely Lethal Gardens Rewind, Book 4

By: Dale Mayer

Narrated by: mandy kaplan

When a young couple is attacked while prepping for a catering job, it seems like the family is dealing with a long-running curse—one that ends in murder. Doreen can’t stop meddling, so, when she finds out that that the young woman’s mother is an unsolved murder case, Doreen has her cold case to work her way into Mack’s current investigation.

But, like all her cases, nothing is quite to simple. While Mack is dealing with the death of the dead chef, Doreen is working behind the scenes to sort out all the different family factions. Meanwhile she must also sort out a gift for Nan’s birthday. Somehow Doreen manages to mix the two together.

Now if only things would go smoothly from here on in—but of course not they don’t. With the animals involved, the chaos is even wilder.

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Excellent as always. I spotted an inconsistent event in the epilogue that seems too obvious for an editor to miss.

This was fantastic! The suspense was high until the last possible moment. I was absolutely wrong about who I thought the killer was.
However, how could any editor, or anyone that pays attention when they read, MISS that the painting was taken home to Doreen's house by Doreen, to later take to Nan in the story, while in the epilogue the painting is picked up by Mack with his truck from Danny's house to take to Nan?
Regardless, excellent book, excellent series, excellent author.

Fun

This is such a fun series. I can’t wait for Mack and Doreen to set a date for their wedding.