Peachy Scream

By: Anna Gerard

Narrated by: Jane Oppenheimer

It's nothing short of inevitable that Cymbeline, Georgia, hosts an annual Shakespeare festival. But stage-struck Nina Fleet is about to learn that putting on an amateur-theatrical production can be murder. Nina's anticipating showbiz glamour and glitz when a community Shakespearean troupe arrives for a two-week stay at her B&B. But the lights dim when she learns the company's director is her nemesis, struggling actor Harry Westcott - who still claims to be the rightful heir to Nina's elegant Queen Anne home.

Meanwhile, the troupe members are not content to leave the drama upon the stage. Accusations of infidelity and financial malfeasance make a shamble of rehearsals. And then, two days into the troupe's stay, the lead actor is found dead in Nina's formal Shakespeare garden. Murder most foul!

Worse, it seems every member of the amateur troupe has a motive - including wealthy construction-company owner Marvin Jeffers, who seems to have a personal interest in Nina. But when the sheriff arrests the supposed boyfriend of the slain actor's widow, Nina suspects that the wrong troupe member is in jail. She and her trusty Australian Shepherd, Matilda, join forces (none too happily) with Harry to sleuth out the murder plot.

Will they find the real killer before someone else shuffles off this mortal coil?

©2020 Anna Gerard (P)2020 Dreamscape Media, LLC

Pretty good

Peachy Scream is an entertaining and enjoyable cozy mystery with an interesting plot and engaging characters.

Great cozy, but inaccurate summary

I’m really enjoying this series, and I think both Nina’s and Harry’s characters are developing nicely. The summary is really inaccurate - nothing that would’ve changed my choosing the book, but I did wonder if the person writing the summary had read the book as published, or skimmed an earlier edition. Looking forward to the next in series.