A case of Bier

Mary Daheim

eAudio - 2019

After a busy summer, Judith McMonigle Flynn, owner of Seattle's popular Hillside Manor B&B, desperately needs some R&R. Leave it to her thoughtful husband, Joe, to surprise her with a trip to the Canadian Rockies. Thrilled to be getting away, Judith is overjoyed when Cousin Renie and Bill agree to join them. Although the two husbands made the arrangements, how bad can a short time away in the beautiful mountains be? Judith and Renie are about to find out! While the accommodations certainly leave something to be desired, the other guests are the real prize. They've gathered on the mountainside to give a relative a proper and permanent send-off-a nice gesture-that is, until Judith realizes that paying their respects might be... a little premature...without some very sinister assistance. Now it's up to her and Renie to save a would-be corpse from an early date with the undertaker.

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Published
[United States] : Dreamscape Media, LLC 2019.
Language
English
Corporate Author
hoopla digital
Main Author
Mary Daheim (author)
Corporate Author
hoopla digital (-)
Other Authors
Susie Berneis (narrator)
Edition
Unabridged
Online Access
Instantly available on hoopla.
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1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 09 min.)) : digital
Format
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
ISBN
9781974903368
Access
AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).
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Review by Booklist Review

While their husbands go on a fishing trip, cousins Judith and Renie vacation in spectacular Banff, Alberta. Amateur sleuth Judith's curiosity soon leads the cousins to look into the murder of the elderly patriarch of a Nebraska farm family staying at the same inn. The Stokes family is in Canada to honor the final wish of the very ill Codger Stokes, who wants his body to be floated on a bier down a nearby river. Unfortunately, he is killed before he can die of natural causes, and his body disappears, along with the bier. The incredibly quirky Stokes family, their saner Iowa relatives, and a missing maid obfuscate the cousins' investigation, but, with the help of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Judith perseveres. While it is difficult to believe that the RCMP would share as much information with tourists as they do here, Judith and the prickly Renie are both fully fleshed characters and will hold the interest of longtime readers of Daheim's series, now in its thirty-first installment.--Sue O'Brien Copyright 2019 Booklist

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Review by Library Journal Review

Judith McMonigle Flynn is ready for a vacation away from her popular bed-and-breakfast. But she and cousin Renie never should have let their husbands plan the trip to Banff in the Canadian Rockies. While she and Renie imagined a luxurious stay, they end up in a cheap motel and the men go off on an extended fishing trip. What does Judith do to entertain herself? Of course, she checks out an unusual gathering where the Stokes family from Nebraska has a bier ready to send down the river when the family elder, Codger, dies. According to the family, Codger is ready to go anytime. But when a body is found with knife wounds, it disappears before the Mounties can investigate. Unfortunately for Sergeant Brewster, RCMP, Judith is already on the case, and she's been labeled a FASTO, a female amateur sleuth tracking offenders. The fast-paced mystery supplies humorous dialog between Renie and Judith, and multiple opportunities for disappearances of corpses and suspects. VERDICT "What's a vacation for if we can't find a corpse" sums up Judith's life and the comic ongoing series. Fans of Tamar Myers and Donna Andrews will appreciate the sequel to Here Comes the Bribe. [See Prepub Alert, 1/8/18.]-Lesa Holstine, Evansville Vanderburgh P.L., IN © Copyright 2019. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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