After spending two weeks hiding out from the media for some R & R, Liza returns home to find her PR still going strong. She knows she has some fans in the Sudoku world, but who would plaster her face all over town with the slogan "Kelly for Mayor"? Liza's neighboring town is run by a dirty political machine. When she turns to an old classmate to see if the machine is behind these political shenanigans, Liza discovers that he's been murdered.
This Sudoku mystery had an awfully long political middle unrelieved by much in the way of Sudoku, but Morgan is a good writer and found yet another way for Sudokus to be used for hidden information. The listing of Sudoku varients at the end was interesting, as was solving a puzzle with symbols other than numbers.
This gets 2 stars because I finished it. Definitely not my favorite cozy mystery series. I am not sure why I continued with the series since I was never too happy with the earlier book. Looking forward to my next book.