September Mourn

Murder by Month Mystery, Book 5

De: Jess Lourey

Narrado por: Jennifer Jill Araya

A festive fairground becomes an unexpected backdrop for a grade A murder in a deliciously funny mystery by Edgar Award-nominated author Jess Lourey.

The Minnesota State Fair wows again with 4-H exhibits, rides, a Neil Diamond concert, and deep-fried everything on a stick. Covering it is a breezy assignment as fluffy as cotton candy for reporter Mira James, until the main attraction becomes murder.

Ashley Pederson, crowned Milkfed Mary, Queen of the Dairy, is getting her all-American likeness carved in a block of unsalted butter when she drops dead, her face as red as a stoplight. Cause: malicious poisoning. Despite Ashley’s creamy good looks, her reputation was pretty rancid. Still, who’d want to take out the soon-to-be college freshman and Battle Lake resident? Mira’s made a vow to the dairy darling’s grieving mother to find out.

Amid queenly competitors, rumors of sordid love affairs and embezzlement scandals, small-town secrets, and big business cover-ups, can Mira find the murderer on the Midway? You bet your corn dog she can.

Revised edition: This edition of September Mourn includes editorial revisions.

©2009, 2018, 2024 by Jess Lourey. (P)2024 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Loved this!

I really enjoyed this a murder mystery with a lot of laughs! Just my cup of tea!

Easy listening while busy

Easy to listen to while busy. I have been busy doing fall cleanup while listening, and the characters are fun and story unique.

Mishap, murder, and mayhem at the county fair

Except for murder, very much like county fairs where I grew up. I like the character continuity from book to book and Variety of settings as backdrop of action in each book.
A pet peeve of mine is the mispronunciation of ethnic words, for example: mispronunciation of food item gyro. NOT jī rō, but yeer oh, when gyro is a food.

A cute cozy mystery

I am normally not one to read these short mysteries but I enjoyed it to get to the end. The banter is great and the characters are believable. A cute short story.