Review by Tracy Condie
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The autumn season with its picture-perfect fall foliage has come to Bobwhite Hollow, New Hampshire. Speaking of pictures, renowned landscape photographer, Lucy Thorne, has also arrived in Bobwhite Hollow to judge a local photo contest and award the winner the opportunity to have their work included in the next Lucy Thorne nature calendar. Alas, before a winner can be chosen, and while giving an outdoor workshop on Weaver Mountain, Ms. Thorne is found dead in a rather grizzly fashion. Not grizzly-bear fashion, although there is an instance where a minivan is attacked by a bear looking for a sandwich. This attack is more of a crime of passion that ends with a stabbing using a camera tripod. Our sleuth, Callie Haybeck, the owner and instructor for Zen Goat, is once again drawn into a mystery, and this time Police Chief Barnhart actually asks Callie to keep her eyes and ears open and to report back anything she comes across. I don’t think that he meant for Callie and her cousin Tristan to poke around, asking personal and sometimes uncomfortable questions. This isn’t Callie’s and Tristan’s first rodeo, but don’t worry, because each story is a stand-alone, and they do a good job of not giving away the good stuff from the previous books.
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The plot is a good one, and the subplots are even better. Callie helps veterinarian Levi create order out of office chaos while trying to determine if they have a relationship or not. She gets to show off her city-girl-turned-farm-girl skills while great uncle Will takes it easy after a little hospital procedure. No Zen Goat Mystery would be complete without a session or two of goat yoga that describe actual yoga positions and some cavorting kid goats.
Callie is endearing, sassy, and very relatable. We either know someone like her or we ourselves sometimes say things out loud that we ought not to have said. Of course, it is always funnier when it is someone else. The red herrings did a good job of adding doubt and clouding issues while the yummy farm fresh food made me want to look up recipes for buttermilk biscuits and summer squash soup. I look forward to the next book and hope it will be a Christmas mystery so Callie can show off her skills to her parents.
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Disclosure: This post contains links to an affiliate program, for which we receive a few cents if you make purchases. KRL also receives free copies of most of the books that it reviews, that are provided in exchange for an honest review of the book.Tracy Condie is a paralegal by day and cozy armchair sleuth by night. When she is not working or reading, she enjoys preparing the recipes found in culinary cozies or researching recipes of meal items described therein and sharing reviews of both books and food on Instagram and on KRL. She lives in Corona, California with her husband and dog Zoolie, and looks forward to visiting with their grown sons when their time permits.
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