Book Review: Tagged for Murder

Reviewed By: Dawn Dowdle

Tagged for Murder     Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Elaine Flinn
Class/Genre:   Mystery   Woman Main Character   Amateur Sleuth
Series: Molly Doyle # 2
Avon, Paperback, 10/04, 304 pages, $6.99

Elaine Flinn has done it again. Another winner!

Molly Doyle is an antiques dealer in Carmel. Trudy Collins dies from an apparent heart attack at a local show.

One night Molly’s sister Carrie, whom she hasn’t seen or heard from in years, shows up at her place with her twelve-year-old daughter, Emma. A couple days later Carrie leaves Em with her. Soon it is discovered that she isn’t coming back. At first Molly is shocked, but as she gets to know Em, she is delighted. She still finds it hard to always remember she has a child to keep an eye on, but overall she is enjoying it.

Kenneth Randall, chief of police, tells Molly that Trudy was murdered, but that he doesn’t want very many people to know. They meet with Daria and Lucero, the D.A., at Daria’s restaurant. She has a back room they can talk in. Daria has Emma taken to the kitchen to see how it works while they talk. Randall tells Molly to not do any investigating.

But, Molly can’t help herself. Unbeknownst to Randall, she has Trudy’s office paperwork and plans to look through it. Once she finds Carrie in some of the pictures, she has a real quandary. How can she turn this over to Randall, as she knows she must? She doesn’t want him to know Carrie is involved until she can determine what exactly she is involved in.

Molly soon discovers that Trudy’s antiques business was not all on the up and up. She worries Carrie may have been involved in that side of her business.

She must investigate but keep Emma safe. Not always easy to do.

This is a fantastic cozy series. Molly is such a likeable character. And now the addition of Emma is wonderful! I really like how they work together. Of course the tension is still there between Molly and Randall. Emma thinks they should get together. Not sure what Molly and Randall think yet.

Bitsy’s role in this mystery is not as big, but she’s still very much a part of the story. I really like her character a lot.

I highly recommend this book. It is the second in the series. You don’t have to read the first to understand this one, but I do highly recommend you read it. They’re both great.

Dawn Dowdle

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