Inn the Family Way

Who-Dun-Him Inn #3

by Heather Horrocks

Some families really put the *fun* in dysfunctional. Especially if fun translates to “The more, the merrier”.Vicki and Liz have nothing against polygamists. After all, their own great-whatever-grandfather who built the mansion that morphed into the Who-Dun-Him Inn had at least three wives (okay, four, but who’s counting?).If family dynamics can be challenging with one husband, one wife, and two-point-five children involved, those in a family with five wives and twenty-eight children can turn deadly serious. Inn the Family Way is the third book in USA Today bestselling author Heather Horrocks’ popular Who-Dun-Him Inn series of funny cozy mysteries. If you like the humor and laughs in the cozy mysteries of Anne George (Southern Sisters) and Nancy Martin (Blackbird Sisters), then you'll love a series that combines laughter with your murder mysteries.Buy this funny, feel-good whodunit today for some murder, mayhem, and mirth!

Genres: Mystery

278 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 30, 2015

About the author

I’m an author who had a somewhat unorthodox upbringing. I was raised in South America and the Middle East, and wrote my first stories as a teenager in Kuwait, where my sister and I proved it really is hot enough to fry an egg on the sidewalk. I wrote my first novel in three months on a typewriter when I was 21, I used every romance cliché possible (including amnesia — need I say more?), and never rewrote anything, which is why it’s so much fun to pull it out occasionally when I need a good laugh. I wrote sporadically until my youngest child (who is now 18) was two, when I decided it was time to either actually start writing, or to stop saying I was a writer. So I took a class and started doing the scary things that writing requires. Now I’ve written about twelve novels and several children’s books.

Reviews

[T.K. · Rating 4 out of 5]

This series is so charming. It was delightful to return to Silver City with an even more unusual cast of characters. Keep them coming, Heather! :)

[Sunshine✰✰✰ · Rating 3 out of 5]

So I happened to of randomly read book #2 a few years ago. Vicki owns and runs an inn where each room is decorated in the style of different fictional detectives. The title says it all. One of the guests is a polygamist family, of which the husband keeps offering Vicki to be his 4th wife, (turns out he is a distant cousin). We have 4 pregnancies, multiple marriage proposals, an affair, and a love triangle. This is the same thing that irked me in the other book and still irked me in this one. It seems to be a pretty wholesome story and there are strong family morals, yet there’s a stupid love triangle.

There was no real overarching murder mystery. Sure there was a mystery and later a murder, but there’s so many other things going on it’s not in the forefront.

[Theresa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Finally! The author wrote a murder mystery involving polygamists as first hinted by a character in the first of this cozy mystery series set at the Who Dun It Inn, owned by a Mormon widow! And it was good!

Babies, puppies, and polygamists vie with marriages (actual and potential), family history, secret rooms, hidden treasure, secrets, and murder, all against a Christmas background. I hope the author keeps up this very original series because it feels as if it is just hitting its stride. Plus she handles delicate themes with sensitivity and humor.

[Imagene M. Thompson · Rating 5 out of 5]

This series this such a great set of books. The characters are wonderful and you feel like you know them. I really enjoy this author and her books. Hoping the next book in the set is released soon because I really want to see what happens next.

[Jill · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute.

[Elaina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another fun and cute story. With mystery, treasure and information about family ties. Enjoyed this wonderful book! I'm not sure if there is another book but it ended like there might be.

[Bart Andersen · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thought this was a great series remenicint of Agatha Christy!!!

[Melissa Walker · Rating 5 out of 5]

Babies, family everywhere

A polygamous family acting strange, puppies, family and pregnancy are the themes of this story. Three men vie for Vicky.

[Ashley Turner · Rating 5 out of 5]

Babies puppies ane murder mystery

Murder and polygamy such a very crazy turn in this series. Vicki almost got killed and Liz is pregnant and the dog had nine puppue.

[Becky Lewis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Too Much Family!!

Leave it to Heather Horrocks to introduce yet a third suitor for Vicki in her most recent cozy, Inn the Family Way, book three of the Who-Dun-Him-Inn series.However, this third suitor is a little different than most. He arrives with his wife and his brother and his brothers' two wives. Hmmm...Joshua tells Vicki that he is a distant relative of hers and her twin sister, Liz. Strange things happen. Joshua is on the make for wife #4 and maybe #5. The polygamists overstay their welcome as they snoop around the inn, supposedly waiting for the recuperation of a local foreign doctor who was mysteriously involved in an auto accident. What connection is there between these odd people and odd happenings?
What do they REALLY want from Vicki?

I loved that this is a light-hearted read, yet we get to see the main characters deal with some real issues, as well. Loved the love triangle between David and Vicki and Lonny. Giving this book 5 stars does not mean it is a literary masterpiece; it DOES mean it is a great COZY and should only be judged as such. Apples to Apples. I upped the stars from four to five when Heather made a newer, corrected copy available soon after the original's release.

[Stacy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this continuation of the series. SPOILER ALERT: Finally Liz admits to being pregnant- it has been obvious for ages. I'm sorry to hear about what has happened to Crystal. I feel for both she and DeWayne. The polygamists made me very uncomfortable. Creepy. I wish David wasn't going to London...and how are they going to get rid of 9 puppies....

[Kathy Kirkland · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm not normally such a binge reader that I put off sleeping more than a couple of hours out a 24 hour time period, but did with this series! Yep, 3 books in less than 24 hours! So fun, well written and intriguing that I couldn't stop reading till I read all three of them! Here's hoping there will be another one in the very near future!!

[Laurel Turner · Rating 5 out of 5]

Felt like family

My only complaint is this: at the end of the 3rd book we're left hanging. Did Vicky and David get together? Is Crystal going to make it? When is book 4 coming out?

[Dharia Scarab · Rating 1 out of 5]

I liked the concept of the inn as a back drop to a mystery series but the personal relationships are annoying as hell.

[Chrissy · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 1/2 stars