Icepick in the Ivy by Dale MayerMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Based in Kelowna, British Columbia. gardener and sometime sleuth Doreen Montgomery (plus her cat, dog, and parrot) have been enjoying a few well-earned days of peace and quiet after the closure of her previous case. When Thaddeus, her independently-minded African grey parrot, digs up two rectangular metal pieces from the path along the creek, Doreen is sent down another rabbit hole of the past: connecting the dots from a long-defunct tool repair company and a young girl who disappeared at the same time. Corporal Mack Moreau doesn’t think these events are connected. He doesn’t believe the spate of recent deaths is suspiciously tied in either. Mack wants Doreen to focus on the materials and the cost analysis to replace her backyard deck and to leave the detecting to him. But how can she, when she knows so much more is going on than Mack believes? With heart attacks, unfair wills, and a missing ice pick Doreen knows they are all related - she just needs to understand how.
I loved this story which was like reading a murder mystery where just like Doreen we were reading and trying to solve the clues as she did. There were many twists and turns in the story and once again Doreen seems to have no sense of danger or self-preservation as she is willing to find the truth almost at any cost - it's a wonder she doesn't make Mack ill with worry sometimes! Well written clear and easy to understand, this is definitely a murder mystery with many layers for us all to solve.
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