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Dune House Mystery #23
Fatal Festivities
The celebratory dinner was going well, until a guest drops dead at the table!
Suzie and Mary love running Dune House, the majestic B&B on the beach, with their lovable yellow Labrador, Pilot, by their side. With Thanksgiving just around the corner, they are excited to be hosting a group of guests from a retirement village for a few days. Everything is organized, their rooms are ready, and the caterers have been booked for a special dinner. They are expecting a nice, relaxing stay for their guests. But from the moment the group get off the bus, they’re at loggerheads.
Then things go from bad to worse when a guest kicks the bucket at the dinner table. When it is found she was murdered, Suzie and Mary are determined to help find the culprit so the murderer can be caught, and the reputation of Dune House isn’t permanently tarnished. With a long list of suspects and some baffling clues, finding the murderer is not proving to be an easy task. Their investigations lead them straight toward danger.
It is a race against time to catch the killer before Thanksgiving!
If you like enthralling cozy mysteries with endearing friendships, lovable animals and a touch of romance, you will love the Dune House Cozy Mystery Series by USA Today and Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author Cindy Bell.
Join Suzie, Mary and Pilot on a fun-filled sleuthing adventure.
Suzie and Mary love running Dune House, the majestic B&B on the beach, with their lovable yellow Labrador, Pilot, by their side. With Thanksgiving just around the corner, they are excited to be hosting a group of guests from a retirement village for a few days. Everything is organized, their rooms are ready, and the caterers have been booked for a special dinner. They are expecting a nice, relaxing stay for their guests. But from the moment the group get off the bus, they’re at loggerheads.
Then things go from bad to worse when a guest kicks the bucket at the dinner table. When it is found she was murdered, Suzie and Mary are determined to help find the culprit so the murderer can be caught, and the reputation of Dune House isn’t permanently tarnished. With a long list of suspects and some baffling clues, finding the murderer is not proving to be an easy task. Their investigations lead them straight toward danger.
It is a race against time to catch the killer before Thanksgiving!
If you like enthralling cozy mysteries with endearing friendships, lovable animals and a touch of romance, you will love the Dune House Cozy Mystery Series by USA Today and Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author Cindy Bell.
Join Suzie, Mary and Pilot on a fun-filled sleuthing adventure.
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163 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 2, 2022
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November 4, 2022
Suzie and Mary host a group of citizens from a retirement village for a few days. The guests wanted to celebrate Thanksgiving and Dune House was selected. Dune House is ready; the caterer has been booked and Suzie and Mary are excited to meet their guests. But, as they depart the bus, Suzie and Mary can feel the animosity coming from the bus. Apparently, it was not an enjoyable trip. Things continue to go down hill when one of guest dies at dinner. What was the motive? Did one of the guests do the deed? Could someone else be targeted or was this specific? Join Suzie and Mary as they investigate the murder.
A perfect cozy mystery with just the perfect amount of humor, mystery, intrigue, quirky characters, and adventure that will keep any reader completely engaged. The investigation is filled with pitfalls, unexpected twists, multiple motives and surprises that keep you glued right to the end. Another great book in the series!
A perfect cozy mystery with just the perfect amount of humor, mystery, intrigue, quirky characters, and adventure that will keep any reader completely engaged. The investigation is filled with pitfalls, unexpected twists, multiple motives and surprises that keep you glued right to the end. Another great book in the series!
February 20, 2023
Great book!!!!
I love this series!!!!!
Suzie and Mary start a host of guests that are a lot to be desired, especially when the bickering flowed out of the bus, with 70 year old people got off, It all centered around this one little old lady. Her sister could not stand her, she was mean and cheated everyone she met.
They were from Shady Village, they were having a pre Thanksgiving dinner/ birthday party, well they were forced into a birthday party which turned into a nightmare when the birthday person fell out. She was a hated woman which she had a very deception past.
Not Suzie and Mary have to find out who, but they knew why. There are a lot of suspects from in and out of Garber.
Jason also has to train a new deputy in the police department.
Boy I would not want to be in their investigation.
Now you have to read this book, you won't be disappointed!!!!
I love this series!!!!!
Suzie and Mary start a host of guests that are a lot to be desired, especially when the bickering flowed out of the bus, with 70 year old people got off, It all centered around this one little old lady. Her sister could not stand her, she was mean and cheated everyone she met.
They were from Shady Village, they were having a pre Thanksgiving dinner/ birthday party, well they were forced into a birthday party which turned into a nightmare when the birthday person fell out. She was a hated woman which she had a very deception past.
Not Suzie and Mary have to find out who, but they knew why. There are a lot of suspects from in and out of Garber.
Jason also has to train a new deputy in the police department.
Boy I would not want to be in their investigation.
Now you have to read this book, you won't be disappointed!!!!
November 4, 2022
The Dynamic Duo (Mary and Suzie) find themselves in a bit of pickle when a retirement group coming to celebrate Thanksgiving at their B&B, Dune House, consists of one member that no one likes. When tragedy strikes, Mary & Suzie put on their investigating hats to help solve the crime. I absolutely love the friendship between Mary & Suzie. Everyone needs a friend like they are to each other. Dune House sounds beautiful as does the small town it is in. This is a great series that I highly recommend. Happy Reading!
* I received an ARC from the author but this review is my honest opinion.
* I received an ARC from the author but this review is my honest opinion.
March 9, 2023
Gosh, what a whirlwind of excitement this one was, I must say Margret did deserve her ending. She sure was a nasty piece of work wrapped up in a seemingly innocent older lady. I felt really bad for Greta, imagine having lived with that most of her life and it affecting how people reacted to her, no wonder she was so defensive. Beth was very no-nonsense, strict discipline and rules but she came through for the ladies in the end and saved the day. More fabulous characters and a story with lots going on, a second round with poison as the weapon of choice.
November 4, 2022
Great Read
I like how Cindy Bell’s characters quickly come to feel like people you know or want to know. I also like that her paragraphs are not long and drawn out. Susie and Mary run a B&B where a group of older people are spending an early Thanksgiving together. When one of them dies over her birthday cake the game is on to find out who the murderer is. You will be guessing right up to the end.
I like how Cindy Bell’s characters quickly come to feel like people you know or want to know. I also like that her paragraphs are not long and drawn out. Susie and Mary run a B&B where a group of older people are spending an early Thanksgiving together. When one of them dies over her birthday cake the game is on to find out who the murderer is. You will be guessing right up to the end.
September 15, 2023
Fatal festivities
Another great one from cindy. Susie and Mary did it again!what else is going to happen at the dune house
Another great one from cindy. Susie and Mary did it again!what else is going to happen at the dune house
February 14, 2025
Love these characters. Dune House is like Grand Central Station, always something going on there! Can't wait to read the next book in the series.
October 7, 2023
Here we are again, investigating another suspicious death at Dune House as a guest dies at the dinner table during a dinner from a retirement home. However, this guest is known to be the troublesome member of the group and the whole group are at loggerheads as soon as they step off the coach when they arrive at Dune House. Two of the people on this bus are sisters, but it’s one of them that ends up dead. She makes this dinner all about her and claims that it was a birthday dinner, as she craved the attention. It is first believed that the death was by natural causes, only it turns out that it’s again another murder! Suzie and Mary now begin to get to work on solving this murder to avoid the reputation of Dune House becoming destroyed - yet there have so many murders happened within the B&B but people are still continuing to stay there. However, as there were a lot of guests at this party it proves hard to be able to definitively work out who actually committed this murder.
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