Annie Mae has one last job to do before she retires from a 30-year career in academia: one week of summer theater camp. A camp she has worked at for so many years, she could do it with her eyes closed. Easy peasy. Until a team leader is murdered and all hell breaks loose as everyone is a suspect and everyone has a secret.
Will she find out the truth before she becomes the killer’s next victim? Or will death be her swan song? Find out in Book Three, Homicide by Hamlet, of the Chubby Chicks Club cozy mystery series, which combines mystery, suspense, humor, and Southern charm.
Annie Mae strikes again! What a fun read! Annie Mae and Bezu and the other “Chubby Chicks” are such delightful sleuths, even if they are a bit “mature”. Who says to have to be twenty something to be a hero?
A Tragic End to an Abrasive Thespian Dr. Annie Mae Maple is retiring from her drama professorship at Armstrong State University, but before she leaves, she’s acting as an advisor to a student theater group competing at the university’s annual summer drama camp. When one of the other advisors is found dead backstage, Annie Mae adds sleuth to her job description. What she finds are layers of secrets surrounding the victim that could affect others involved in the drama competition as well as being a motive for murder.Â
A must read. Fast paced & Fun. Loved. Homicide by Hamlet has a main mystery with a minor (sweet) love story weaved in. I was rooting not just for the heroine, Annie Mae Maple, but for the other characters as well. I tried to figure out who committed the murder, right up until the end. All of the suspects seemed guilty– any one of them could have done it and had the means, motive, and opportunity to do so. The ending has a surprise twist!Â